What Happens to Your Letter After You Mail It to Lewis County Jail
Sending a letter to someone at Lewis County Jail? Here's the key thing: the jail uses a scan-and-deliver system. Your loved one reads your mail electronically—not the original paper you sent.
Lewis County Jail scans all incoming postal mail - postcards, letters, greeting cards - into their system. After scanning, the physical original is destroyed. The paper you send won't be kept on file, and your loved one can't pick it up or store it as a keepsake.
Warning: Don’t send anything you can’t replace. Because the jail destroys the original after scanning, irreplaceable originals (like one-of-a-kind photos or handwritten keepsakes) can’t be returned.
After scanning, your letter shows up on the jail's inmate kiosks. So even though you mailed a physical envelope or postcard, what they actually see is the electronic version.
Want to send pictures? SmartJailMail's photo service lets you do that with no limit on how many you can send. Share kids' milestones, family events, or just a snapshot of home - no need to pick and choose.
Photos sent through SmartJailMail aren't delivered automatically. Facility staff review and approve all photos before the inmate receives them, so keep what you send simple and clearly appropriate for a jail setting.
- ✓ Sexually explicit or nude images
- ✓ Images that appear to show illegal activity or rule-breaking
- ✓ Pictures that focus on weapons, drugs, or other contraband
- ✓ Anything that could be seen as threatening, harassing, or meant to intimidate
- ✓ Images that are heavily altered in a way that could hide what’s really shown
After release, your loved one can still access everything that was sent during their time in custody. According to Lewis County Jail, released inmates can log into the SmartJailMail public website using their inmate number and password, then download their photos, messages, and scanned postal mail for free.
Tip: Have your loved one keep track of their SmartJailMail login details. They'll need that inmate number and password after release to download their mail and photos.
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