How Mail Works at Toledo Correctional (ToCI) — OMPC Scanning, Where to Send, and Letter Rules (Effective Aug 5, 2025)

Starting August 5, 2025, incoming paper mail to Toledo Correctional Institution (ToCI) will be scanned into an email format at the ODRC Mail Processing Center (OMPC). Your letter or card goes through the OMPC instead of being handled as traditional paper mail at ToCI.

Where to Send

• ✓ Personal mail from family and friends: send to the ODRC Mail Processing Center (OMPC)
• ✓ Greeting cards: send to the ODRC Mail Processing Center (OMPC)
• ✓ Mail from religious organizations: send to the ODRC Mail Processing Center (OMPC)

• ✓ Business correspondence from organizations, businesses, and agencies: send to the parent institution
• ✓ Legal mail and court mail: send to the parent institution (OMPC does not handle legal mail)
• ✓ Packages and magazines: OMPC does not handle these, send them to the parent institution

Here's the simple split for ToCI: letters and cards from family and friends go to the OMPC. Legal mail, or anything that isn't a letter or card (like printed materials handled outside the OMPC process), goes directly to the parent institution instead.

Under the OMPC process, regular correspondence gets converted to an electronic copy. All first-class letters are copied and/or scanned, along with the front of the envelope, pictures, greeting cards, and brochures up to 8½ x 11. The OMPC handles letters and cards only. It does not process legal mail, packages, or magazines.

Stay within first-class limits. Letters can be up to fifteen (15) pages total, written or typed, counting both the front and back of each page. Use white or yellow paper, and keep pages no larger than 8½ x 14.

Once mail is copied and/or scanned, the original paper is held for 30 days, then destroyed. If you're sending something you'd want back later, don't count on the paper version being kept.

Photos work the same way. Photographs (including professionally produced photos) get copied and/or scanned, and the originals are destroyed. If the incarcerated person wants to keep them, they'll need to arrange to have them sent to another address at their own expense.

1. Write the offender number on the front of the envelope - Include it with the person’s name so it is clearly visible.
2. Check it before you send - Make sure the offender number is on the outside of the envelope (not only inside the letter).

Care Packages Vendors

• ✓ Family and friends may order food and sundry packages from approved vendors, subject to institutional limits
• ✓ Approved vendors include Keefe Group/Access Securepak, Union Supply Direct, and Walkenhorsts
• ✓ OMPC does not handle packages, so packages follow the parent institution process, not the OMPC mail stream