How to Contact an Inmate at Vermilion County Jail, IL (IL)

As of 10/25/2023, physical mail sent to incarcerated individuals at Vermilion County is scanned and delivered digitally to their terminal and tablet. Your letter won't arrive as paper in hand. Instead, the person you're writing will see a digital scan of it on a screen.

A few exceptions exist. Private or privileged mail from legal institutions, packages, and money orders are all handled differently and bypass the digital-scanning process.

On the front of the envelope, include the incarcerated individual's full first and last name along with their Jail or DOC ID number. Write clearly. Legibility matters when mail is being processed for scanning.

Steps Follow

• ✓ Write the incarcerated individual’s full first and last name on the front of the envelope.
• ✓ Add the Jail or DOC incarcerated individual ID on the front of the envelope.
• ✓ Include your complete return address.
• ✓ Do not use the DMC center P.O. Box as your return address.

• ✓ Do not send items that cannot be scanned (for example, non-paper items or paper larger than 8.5 x 14 inches).
• ✓ Avoid sending items smaller than 4 x 6 inches. If they are accepted for processing, they may be scanned and printed on an 8.5 x 11 inch page for the incarcerated individual.

• ✓ Skip heavy artwork or drawings that use lots of ink, since ink bleed can make scans difficult to read.
• ✓ If you use torn spiral notebook paper, trim off the torn fringe (“chads”) before mailing.

Before sending anything time-sensitive, confirm the scanning policy is still in effect and ask about current exceptions. Find out how private or privileged legal mail, packages, and money orders are handled, and what happens to items that can't be scanned.

Double-check the addressing requirements with the facility too, especially the inmate ID format. While you're at it, confirm any return-address rules, including the instruction not to use the DMC center P.O. Box as your return address.