Starting next Tuesday, the way you send your love and legal briefs to inmates at Pinellas County Jail is going digital. Out with the old snail mail, in to embrace the efficiency of the internet age, Pinellas County Jail is partnering with Smart Communications to make all personal and legal inmate correspondence paperless. Gone will be the days of pencil-scratched letters and dog-eared photographs; from now on, it's all about pixels and screens.
For anyone looking to send personal mail to inmates, it's mostly business as usual—just send your letters to Smart Communications at the given P.O. box in Seminole, FL. But remember to clearly mark the inmate's name and ID number, because anything missing that vital info is just going to get bounced back. Once Smart Communications gets it, they'll scan the mail so inmates can quickly check it out on their devices. One might eagerly anticipate this change as a step towards embracing the inevitable technological progression.
Tracking the journey of your mail just got a lot easier too. With a MailGuardTracker.com account, you can get the lowdown on why your mail may get rejected and keep copies of all the correspondence your inmate has received. And when it's time for them to walk out the jail doors, they can continue to access all their old mail for free at smartinmate.com, ensuring no memory gets left behind.
The legal eagles haven't been forgotten either. Attorneys can effortlessly send electronic mail or stick to sending it the old-fashioned way by the book. The promise of a seamless transition has been given by the Pinellas County Jail, as quoted in Pinellas County Sheriff's Office recent announcement. It's a move surely to be observed with interest by prisons across the nation, looking to possibly follow in the footsteps of such a bold leap into the digital realm.
