Inmate Mail

The Essex County Sheriff’s Department will no longer be accepting personal mail for incarcerated persons and will switch to a digital delivery system.

The switch to digital mail applies only to personal and nonprivileged mail. Privileged and legal correspondence, as well as some specific items such as money orders and publications sent directly from a publisher or authorized retailer, will still be accepted through the postal service. If the mail contains a money order for a person’s canteen account, please write “CANTEEN” on the envelope.

The program is run by Securus Technologies, which will receive, open, and scan mail into digital files. ECSD will print the files and distribute to recipients. The original correspondence will be kept by Securus for 60 days before being destroyed. A sender may request their correspondence be returned by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope.