New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION
Chapter VIII - Institutional Programs
Part 722 - Forwarding Incarcerated Individual Mail
Section 722.1 - Policy

Universal Citation: 7 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 722.1

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024

(a) The department will forward all first class and legal mail for any inmate transferred for as long as he/she remains in the custody of the department. All other mail will be forwarded as directed upon receipt of a change of address order, form 2101, from any inmate who guarantees payment of forwarding postage.

(b) Upon release from custody of the department, an inmate, if he/she wishes to ensure the forwarding of mail, must file a change of address order with the correspondence unit at the facility from which he/she is released.

(c) No mail will be forwarded to a released inmate unless a change of address order is on file. Mail will be forwarded for a period of two months.

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