How to send photos to someone at Pinckneyville Correctional Center
You can mail photos yourself or have a qualifying printing business send them directly to someone at Pinckneyville Correctional Center. The route matters: personally mailed photos are reproduced, while qualifying direct-business mailings are delivered as original photographs.
Under Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) mail rules, updated March 18, 2026, photographs you mail yourself are scanned or photocopied in color. If you want your loved one to receive original printed photographs without digitization, they must come directly from a qualifying photo-printing business and meet all the conditions below.
- ✓ Direct delivery from a legitimate, verifiable business that prints and distributes photographs through the mail
- ✓ Photographs free of contraband
- ✓ Unopened material
- ✓ Original watermarks included
Send photos to the facility where your loved one is housed. You can use IDOC’s individual-in-custody search to locate their IDOC number and current facility.
For someone housed at Pinckneyville Correctional Center, use this recipient-mail address: Individual in Custody Name & IDOC# 5835 State Route 154 Pinckneyville, IL 62274
- Identify your loved one’s name, IDOC number, and current facility.
- Address the envelope with their name and IDOC number and the Pinckneyville address above, placing the IDOC number near their name to support prompt processing.
- Put their name and IDOC number on each enclosed photo, page, or other document, then mail it to the facility.
IDOC sets no limit on the number of photos or pieces of paper you can send in one envelope. Its existing unauthorized-mail rules still apply.
For personally mailed photos, IDOC staff scan the front and back of the envelope and each enclosed item in color, then deliver the images electronically or as printed copies. Staff may instead photocopy everything in color for physical delivery. Electronic mail scanning is free for you and your loved one.
IDOC provides non-privileged mail containing 10 or more pages, meaning 10 single-sided or five double-sided pages, as physical photocopies rather than uploading it to tablets.
Recipients who cannot adequately access mail electronically receive photocopies. This includes access problems caused by disability or impairment, restrictive housing, technological malfunction, or another reason.
Your loved one can request a free color reproduction of photographs by completing DOC 0286, the Individual in Custody Staff Request Form. Currently, printouts are on standard copy paper. Cardstock is a future option; IDOC will notify recipients when it becomes available, and they may submit new requests then.
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