How to Send Books, Magazines and Religious Study Materials to North Carolina Prisons

You can't mail books or magazines directly to an offender yourself. The order must come from a publisher or online retailer and ship straight to the facility. Send it as an individual, and it will likely be rejected under the publications rule.

Religious correspondence courses, sacred texts, and Bible studies require an extra step in North Carolina prisons: pre-approval. The materials must be accessible for review on the vendor, school, or religious organization's website. If they're not available online for review, approval can be blocked before anything ships.

• ✓ Make sure the religious course, sacred text, or Bible study is approved before anything is sent.
• ✓ Have the materials shipped directly from the vendor, school, or religious institution to the correctional facility.
• ✓ Do not ship approved religious study materials through TextBehind.
• ✓ Confirm with the offender’s facility that it will accept the shipment in this format.

1. Contact the offender’s facility about packages. TextBehind will return all packages to the sender, so you will want the facility’s current rules before you try to send anything.
2. For religious study items, confirm pre-approval and direct shipping. The religious correspondence course, sacred text, or Bible study must be PRE-APPROVED and accessible on the vendor, school, or organization website for review, and approved materials must be sent directly from the vendor, school, or religious institution (not through TextBehind).