What You Can and Can't Send in the Mail to Muhlenberg County Jail

For regular friends-and-family mail, use this format exactly: Inmate Name - Inmate ID Muhlenberg County Detention Center PO Box 76550 Highland Heights, KY 41076

Legal mail goes to a different address. If you're a lawyer or other legal representative, use: Inmate Name - Inmate ID Muhlenberg County Detention Center 108 Court Row Greenville, KY 42345

• ✓ Put the inmate’s full name and inmate ID on the envelope.
• ✓ Include your return address on the envelope.

Keep your paper simple and scanner-friendly. Mail can't be larger than 8½" x 11" (letter size) or smaller than 3½" x 5" (postcard size). It also can't be thicker than light card stock - everything needs to feed through a sheet-fed scanner.

Photos are the only enclosure allowed. You can send up to six photographs per package, and they must be printed on photo paper - no larger than 4" x 6".

Prohibited Items

• ✓ Stamps
• ✓ Blank envelopes
• ✓ Stationery
• ✓ Cash, checks, money orders, or any other form of currency

• ✓ Threats of physical harm against any person, or threats/details of criminal activity
• ✓ Plans to smuggle contraband into or out of the institution
• ✓ Information to formulate escape plans, to commit a crime, or to violate a prison rule
• ✓ Solicitation of gifts, goods, money, or things of value from individuals or entities other than family or established close friends
• ✓ Code or gang insignia
• ✓ Obscene language or drawings
• ✓ Information that would create a threat to the security of the institution

• ✓ Address labels
• ✓ Stickers
• ✓ Homemade cards
• ✓ Musical cards
• ✓ Non-white paper or envelopes
• ✓ Paintings
• ✓ Tracing paper
• ✓ Pages from coloring books
• ✓ Drawings in colored ink, marker, crayon, or glitter
• ✓ Raised decorations
• ✓ Paint, white-out, glue, or any other liquid form
• ✓ Printouts from the internet
• ✓ Colored pages
• ✓ “Provocative” material

Assume every piece of mail will be opened, inspected, and possibly read. If staff find contraband or anything that violates jail rules, the mail gets destroyed. You won't get it back.

Some mail gets returned to sender instead of delivered. This includes legal mail, certified mail requiring the inmate's signature, and mail with postage due.

1. Write the inmate’s full name and inmate ID - mail must be addressed with both.
2. Add your return address - incoming mail must have a return address on the envelope.
3. Use the right paper size and thickness - stay between 3½" x 5" and 8½" x 11", keep it no thicker than light card stock, and make sure it can go through a sheet-fed scanner.
4. Only include photos if you’re sending an enclosure - pictures are the only permitted enclosure, up to six per package, printed on photo paper and no larger than 4" x 6".

Before you seal the envelope, double-check the address. Friends-and-family mail goes to the PO Box in Highland Heights. Legal mail goes to 108 Court Row in Greenville.