Guidance
Send legal mail to prisons
Use this service to create barcodes and addresses to display in your legal correspondence or your confidential access mail.
Applies to England and Wales
Use this service to create barcodes and addresses to display in your:
- legal correspondence (Rule 39 mail) if you鈥檙e the legal adviser of the recipient
- confidential access mail if your organisation or role is listed in the guidance on monitoring and managing prisoner communications (PSI 04/2016)
Each barcode is unique and confirms to prison mailroom staff that you鈥檙e an approved sender.
What you鈥檒l need
To access this service you鈥檒l need a Criminal Justice Secure Mail (CJSM) email address which ends 鈥榗jsm.net鈥�.
You can
You鈥檒l also need:
- the names of your recipients
- the prison numbers or date of births of your recipients
- a printer, A4 paper and envelopes with windows
Updates to this page
Published 1 December 2022