Mailing Letters to Someone at Bledsoe: How Tennessee’s Digital Mail Scanning Works

TDOC scans all personal (non-privileged) mail and delivers it digitally to the recipient's tablet. So the letter you drop in the mailbox gets converted into an electronic document they read on a tablet in their housing area. The original paper isn't kept forever - physical copies are held for up to 90 days, then destroyed. The digital delivery itself is free.

For mail to reach someone at Bledsoe, the envelope needs the person's committed (legal) name and their TDOC identification number. Those two pieces are how the system matches your letter to the right person.

Here's TDOC's sample format for the full address: Facility Name Inmate First Last Name TDOC ID # P.O. Box 247 Phoenix, MD 21131 Use this as your template: facility name first, then the person's name, then the TDOC ID line, followed by the P.O. Box routing.

Privileged mail works differently. A staff member opens it only in the presence of the person it's addressed to, checks for contraband, and documents the process.

Practical Sender Tips

• ✓ Address the envelope with the inmate’s committed (legal) name.
• ✓ Include the inmate’s TDOC ID number on the envelope.
• ✓ Write “TDOC ID#” immediately before the number (for example: “TDOC ID# 123456”).
• ✓ Put the facility name on the address, and follow TDOC’s sample routing that uses the offsite scanning P.O. Box (example shown as “P.O. Box 247, Phoenix, MD 21131”).

This formatting matters. TDOC's system reads the TDOC ID number electronically, and personal mail gets scanned before digital delivery. If the ID line is missing or the

TDOC's guidance shows a central, offsite scanning address (the sample uses