Sending Mail to Someone at Sayle Unit: Digital Mail Center vs. Direct to the Unit

Personal mail to someone at Sayle Unit goes to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) Digital Mail Processing Center. This includes greeting cards, photos, and other personal documents. Use this address: Texas Department of Criminal Justice PO Box 660400 Dallas, TX 75266-0400 TDCJ routes all personal correspondence through this centralized location, so sending to the Dallas PO Box keeps your letter moving through the system correctly.

• ✓ Put the inmate’s full first and last name on the envelope.
• ✓ Add the inmate’s TDCJ number with the name (name + TDCJ number).
• ✓ Keep the name and TDCJ number together on the recipient line so it is easy to spot at processing.

Some items should skip the Digital Mail Processing Center entirely. Legal mail, media mail, books, magazines, packages, and subscriptions from verified publishers all go directly to the unit. Send these to the Dallas processing center and you're looking at delays or rejection, since they follow a different mail path.

If the person you're writing to doesn't have a tablet, their Digital Mail Center correspondence still gets delivered. It just arrives as black-and-white printed copies.

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• ✓ Send personal letters, cards, photos, and similar personal mail to: TDCJ Digital Mail Processing Center, PO Box 660400, Dallas, TX 75266-0400.
• ✓ Always include the inmate’s full first and last name plus their TDCJ number on the envelope.
• ✓ Send legal mail and media mail directly to the unit, not to the Digital Mail Processing Center.
• ✓ Only send books, magazines, packages, and subscriptions if they are coming from verified publishers, and send those directly to the unit.