What You Can and Can't Mail to Someone at Aransas County Jail (Checklist)

Keep it plain if you want your mail to get through. Don't send food into the jail, and don't mail food out either. Skip anything printed from the internet (internet printouts aren't allowed at all). Mail will also be rejected if it contains gang-related content, escape references, pornographic material, or inflammatory writing.

Expect your regular mail to be opened. Staff will check all non-privileged mail for contraband before delivering it.

Legal mail is handled differently. Privileged (legal) mail gets opened only when the inmate is present, and the inspection is limited to checking for contraband.

• ✓ Assume non-privileged mail will be opened and checked for contraband.
• ✓ If you are sending privileged (legal) mail, it should be opened only in the inmate’s presence, with inspection limited to locating contraband.
• ✓ Do not include internet printouts, they are not permitted and can keep the mail from getting through.

For non-legal outgoing mail, the inmate's name must be clearly written on the envelope. The jail also tells inmates not to use the jail's address as their return address on non-legal mail. Use a personal address (family or another outside address) instead.

If the person you're writing doesn't have funds, they can request basic writing supplies. Indigent inmates receive three envelopes, nine sheets of paper, and a facility pen.

The county will also mail out three letters a week for indigent inmates. Each letter costs $0.58, which gets debited from their commissary account.

1. Keep it correctly identified - If the inmate is sending non-legal outgoing mail, their name has to be clearly stated, and they should not use the jail’s address as the return address.
2. Do not send food - No food may be mailed into or out of Aransas County Jail by family or friends.
3. Skip anything printed from the internet - Internet printouts of any kind are not permitted as incoming mail.
4. Avoid content that will get rejected - Do not include gang-related content, escape references, pornographic material, or other inflammatory writing.
5. Assume regular mail will be inspected - All incoming non-privileged mail will be opened and checked for contraband.
6. Handle legal mail as privileged mail - Privileged mail is opened only in the inmate’s presence, and inspection is limited to locating contraband.

• ✓ Do not include anything that could be viewed as pornographic, gang-related, or otherwise inflammatory.
• ✓ Do not include internet printouts of any kind.