Sending Mail to Someone at East Mesa Reentry Facility: Use the Central Mail Processing Center
Sending letters to someone at East Mesa Reentry Facility (EMRF)? All mail goes through the San Diego County Sheriff's central Mail Processing Center. Mail addressed directly to the facility gets rejected and returned.
All mail for people at East Mesa Reentry Facility routes through the San Diego County Sheriff's central Mail Processing Center. Don't address your envelope to EMRF directly. If you do, it will likely be rejected and sent back to you.
Address your envelope to: Mail Processing Center, 451 Riverview Parkway, Building C, Santee, CA 92071.
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- ✓ Incarcerated person’s full name
- ✓ Booking number (this helps route mail to the right person)
- ✓ Facility name (East Mesa Reentry Facility)
- ✓ Your name (sender)
- ✓ Your full return address (if it’s missing, your mail can be rejected or returned)
Once your letter arrives at the Mail Processing Center, it's handled as jail mail. Staff open, inspect, and search all incoming and outgoing mail for contraband. They also scan the contents for safety and security reasons. Don't assume anything you send stays private.
Legal mail works differently. Correspondence between an incarcerated person and their attorney gets checked for contraband but not read. Regular mail, by contrast, is opened and scanned for safety and security reasons.
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- ✓ Do send mail to the central Mail Processing Center address (not to EMRF).
- ✓ Do include the person’s full name, booking number, and facility name.
- ✓ Do include your name and full return address.
- ✓ Don’t address mail directly to East Mesa Reentry Facility.
Reminder: All jail mail is opened, inspected, and scanned for safety and security. Plan for processing time before your letter reaches its recipient.
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