How to Send Mail to Someone at Lynchburg Detention Center (new offsite address)

The mail process at Lynchburg Detention Center has changed. The facility now uses a different mailing address for personal correspondence. Letters, pictures, and drawings go to a contracted offsite facility where they're scanned and delivered electronically through the tablet system. What you put in the envelope matters: the right address and the right contents help your mail get accepted and routed for scanning.

Address personal mail using this exact format: Facility Name Inmate Full Name, Inmate # P.O. Box 247 Phoenix, MD 21131 Put the full facility name (and the state where it's located) on the first line, then the inmate's full name and inmate number on the next. Include your full name and physical return address in the top left corner of the envelope. If you've written before, use the same inmate identifier you used previously.

Send mail to the wrong address and it won't reach the inmate. BRRJA returns mail sent directly to the facility, with exceptions for legal mail and money orders (which follow separate rules). If you want your letter, photos, or drawings to make it through the scanning process, use the P.O. Box address and follow the envelope format exactly.

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• ✓ Don’t send books, magazines, or newspaper subscriptions (outside deliveries aren’t being accepted until further notice).
• ✓ Don’t include stickers, glitter, crayons, strings, plastic, or anything pasted/glued onto the paper.
• ✓ Don’t send greeting cards with mechanical devices (music/recording).
• ✓ Don’t include bookmarks (paper or plastic).
• ✓ Photos: no more than 10 at a time; must be 4×6 or smaller; no Polaroids and no frames.
• ✓ Don’t send nude or revealing photos of any type.

The offsite scanning address is for personal mail only. Legal mail works differently: send it to the PO Box/physical address, and BRRJA will copy it, then destroy the original with the inmate watching. The copy goes to the inmate. Money is handled separately too - only money orders mailed by themselves are accepted. Letters containing money orders get returned to sender. Don't send cash, certified checks, or personal checks. Make the money order payable to BRRJA, and write the inmate's name after the purchaser's name.

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• ✓ Use the required format: Facility Name + inmate full name and inmate # + P.O. Box 247, Phoenix, MD 21131.
• ✓ Write your full name and physical return address on the top left of the envelope.
• ✓ Keep the contents simple: paper letters, photos, and drawings only - no stickers/glitter/crayons/strings/pasting or mechanical cards.
• ✓ If you include photos, keep them 4×6 or smaller and no more than 10.