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Sending Mail to Someone at Fort Stockton Unit: New Digital Mail Rules Explained

Writing to someone at the Fort Stockton Unit? The biggest change is where you send your mail. Most personal correspondence now goes to a central TDCJ processing center, where it gets scanned and delivered digitally.

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TDCJ switched to a digital mail platform on September 6, 2023, and the Fort Stockton Unit is part of that system. Your letter no longer goes directly to the unit in paper form. Instead, it's sent to the Digital Mail Processing Center, where staff sort and scan it, then upload it to the inmate's secure tablet. Your loved one reads a digital version of what you mailed.

Address your personal mail to the Digital Processing Center, not the unit itself. Use this exact format: Texas Department of Criminal Justice Inmate's Full First and Last Name + TDCJ Number PO Box 660400 Dallas, TX 75266-0400

Exceptions

  • ✓ Legal mail (send directly to the unit)
  • ✓ Media mail (send directly to the unit)
  • ✓ Books, magazines, packages, and other subscriptions from verified publishers (send directly to the unit)

No tablet? Your letter still gets through. TDCJ prints black-and-white copies of the scanned mail for inmates who don't have one.

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