New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Chapter 103 - COMMUNITY PROGRAMS
Subchapter 7 - MAIL: CORRESPONDENCE, LEGAL CORRESPONDENCE, PUBLICATIONS, AND PACKAGES FOR JUVENILES RESIDING IN RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY HOMES
Section 13:103-7.44 - Correspondence, legal correspondence, publications, and packages for a juvenile released on parole, at expiration of maximum sentence or upon other release
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024
(a) The residential community home shall obtain a juvenile's forwarding address at or about the time of the juvenile's release on parole, at expiration of maximum sentence, or upon other release.
(b) The juvenile shall be asked whether correspondence and legal correspondence received at the residential community home should be forwarded to the juvenile.
(c) Upon the juvenile's request, the community program shall forward the correspondence and legal correspondence to the juvenile for a period not to exceed three months.
(d) The residential community home shall not forward certified or registered mail, but shall return it to the sender.
(e) Any correspondence and legal correspondence received after the three-month period shall be returned to the sender. If the sender cannot be identified, the correspondence or legal correspondence shall be marked "Refused" and returned to the United States Postal Service unopened.
(f) Any publications and packages received after the juvenile has left the residential community home shall be returned to sender, if possible, or destroyed.
