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.

• From: HM Prison and Probation Service and HM Prison Service
• Published: 1 December 2022

Applies to England and Wales

Use this service to create barcodes and addresses to display in your:

• legal correspondence (Rule 39 mail) if you’re 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’re an approved sender.

What you’ll need

To access this service you’ll need a Criminal Justice Secure Mail (CJSM) email address which ends ‘cjsm.net’.

You can check if your organisation has already joined CJSM, or apply to join.

You’ll 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

Published 1 December 2022