How to send messages, photos, and packages
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Sending mail to someone at Blue Ridge Regional Jail — Amherst works differently than you might expect. Your letter goes to a P.O. Box in Phoenix, Maryland, where it's scanned and delivered electronically to your loved one's tablet.
Blue Ridge Regional Jail doesn't deliver personal mail as physical paper. Instead, letters, pictures, and drawings get scanned at an offsite facility and delivered electronically through the tablet system. This means anything extra tucked into your envelope—stickers, small gifts, loose items—will likely get your mail rejected or returned.
Sending a personal letter to someone at Blue Ridge Regional Jail – Amherst? Here's what you need to know: the jail no longer handles personal mail on-site. Instead, Blue Ridge Regional Jail Authority routes it through a contracted offsite facility, where letters are scanned and delivered electronically via the tablet system. Mail sent directly to the jail site gets returned to the sender—legal mail and money orders are the exceptions.
The Blue Ridge Regional Jail — Amherst inmate mail page is currently returning a “forbidden” message, so the site isn’t serving its mail instructions right now. Until it’s restored, follow common Virginia jail mail practices like strict addressing and possible off-site scanning.
Many facilities only accept books and magazines shipped directly from an approved publisher or distributor—not from individuals. Check for any BRRJA-specific exceptions once official mail guidance becomes available.
Most facilities don't allow cash or personal checks inside letters. Use the separate deposit process the facility or vendor provides once BRRJA's official guidance is available.
If your loved one wants to work while incarcerated at Blue Ridge Regional Jail, two options come up most often: Work Release and the WorkForce work-detail crews. Here's what the jail's public program guidance says about eligibility, disqualifying factors, and what participation requires.
Sending money to someone at Blue Ridge Regional Jail Authority (BRRJA) – Amherst? The biggest rule is simple: money orders must be mailed by themselves. Tuck one into a letter, and that letter comes right back to you.
Sending money to someone at Blue Ridge Regional Jail — Amherst? Here's what you need to know: BRRJA only accepts money orders, and they must be mailed by themselves. Make the money order payable to BRRJA, and include the inmate's name after the purchaser's name so it gets credited to the right account. Mail it to the facility's PO Box or physical address—no in-person drop-offs allowed. Don't send money orders to the Phoenix, Maryland address; that's only for personal mail.
