**NEW MAIL PROCEDURES** Please read carefully
Beginning January 23, 2025, all letters, postcards, greeting cards or other personal mail must be sent to a third party address. Please click HERE for the new information regarding mail you send to AICs. Once your mail arrives to the third party, they will scan it and electronically deliver it to the Linn County Jail. As long as the mail does not violate any facility rules, it will be delivered to the AIC in a reasonable amount of time. After January 23, 2025, any mail types listed above that arrive at the jail will be returned to the sender.
Most importantly, do not send checks, money orders or cash to the new address or to the jail. Those items will not be accepted. You can place money on an AIC’s account by visiting the CorrectPay site or using the kiosk in our lobby.
If you are ordering books from a clearing house or publisher to be sent to the AIC, those items should still be sent to our physical address, 1115 Jackson Street SE, Albany, OR, 97322.
Confiscation/Censorship of Outgoing AIC Mail
If any outgoing mail is confiscated or censored, the AIC will be notified, in writing, within 24 hours. The AIC has the right to a hearing to contest this action within seven (7) days (excluding weekends and holidays) of the action.
Refusal/Rejection of Incoming Mail
If incoming mail is rejected for violating facility rules, but it does not violate law for the AIC to receive the mail, the mail will be placed in the AIC’s property for them to have after their release. If your incoming mail to the AIC violates any of the rules listed on the information HERE, our third party mail service provider may reject it.
Types of Mail
Incoming official correspondence will be opened by a corrections deputy, in the AIC’s presence, and inspected to make sure no contraband is enclosed.
Newspaper subscriptions for AICs are limited to one and must be mailed directly from the publisher to the jail physical address.
Photographs that do not exceed four inches by six inches in size, and that comply with the rules of prohibited mail, can be sent to the third party address. Instructions in English and Spanish are outlined HERE. Do not send photos to the jail. They will be refused. AICs are limited to a maximum of ten photographs in their possession. All others will be placed in the AIC’s property. AICs may not receive photographs that show sexually explicit, inflammatory, profane, or gang affiliated images.
Prohibited mail includes mail that:
- Does not have the sender and AIC full names an/or the return address is not plainly visible on the envelope.
- Has anything affixed to the outside of the envelope other than a stamp.
- Is written in anything other than pencil, standard ballpoint pen ink, typewritten or computer generated print. Markers and crayon are not allowed. The third party mail handler will refuse those items.
- Sexually explicit or inflammatory materials or gang related references.
- Any material that threatens or is detrimental to the security, good order or discipline of the jail.
- Any material that facilitates criminal activity.
- Is written in code.
- Contains information suggesting violence and/or physical harm to a human being.
- Contains blank paper, cards, envelopes or uncancelled postage.
- Has perfume, a foreign or any unidentifiable substance on or in the mail.
- Contains contraband of any kind.
- Contains polaroid style photos.
- The Sheriff, the Undersheriff, or Jail Commander feels poses a threat to the safety and security of the facility, staff, and/or other AICs
- Is written to stated a victim, residence of the victim, co-defendant, residence of a co-defendant or anyone else restricted by the courts or Parole and Probation
- Fails the mail screener
- Contains anything other than written correspondence, photos, or handmade drawings