Inmate Mail and Publication policy 

UPDATE: Effective 01/01/2021 All Post cards mailed to 560 Greison Trail will be returned to sender. Read below. 

Attention 
All Visitors or Family Members of Inmates at the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office Detention Center.  

Effective March 16, 2023, the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office will not be accepting any publications delivered from the public. The Jail Division is working with TechFriends to add over 2000 books to a digital library on the tablets. We are also working to expand our tablet numbers per section.  

Inmate religious material may be purchased from our commissary provider or requested from the Jail Chaplain.  

This change will not affect the Newnan Times Herald newspaper subscriptions.  

I. Purpose 
To establish guidelines to provide an efficient, lawful, safe, and supervised mail operation for inmates within the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office, detention facility. 
 
II. Rationale 
It is reasonable to believe that criminal enterprises operate within detention facilities and prison systems. Allowing inmate to inmate correspondence increases the likelihood of concerted criminal activity between the housing units within a specific institution or between other penal and detention facilities. Examples of this can be described as but not limited to simultaneous riot efforts, escape plans, criminal networking, drug trafficking, retribution plans and criminal street gang activity. (Turner v. Safely, 482 US 78) 
 
Allowing stamps, multi-layered, greeting cards, hardback books, or photographs (Polaroid), adhesives, crayon, marker ink, lipstick, envelopes and /or objects with other unidentified substances or stains within the secure detention environment increases the ability for inmates and persons outside of the secure environment to smuggle contraband into or hide contraband within the facility. The prohibition of the said objects or substances is necessary in the preservation of order, discipline and security of the detention facility. (Bell v Wolfish, 441 US 520) 
 
III. Definitions 
 
Contraband 
An item whose introduction or possession is prohibited within the detention facility or its guard line. Contraband may be items that are either illegal or legal but prohibited by this facility. All items of contraband will be handled in the appropriate manner and will be either destroyed, placed in the inmate's personal property, or turned over to the evidence room for prosecution. 
 
Non-Privileged Mail 
Mail that inmates send to and/or receive from family, friends, and private organizations. 
 
Legal or Privileged Mail 
Mail that inmates send to or receive from their attorneys of record or with whom an attorney-client relationship has been established, the courts, or other court officials, as well as probation officers. Whenever an inmate receives mail from an attorney it shall be automatically presumed that an attorney-client relationship exists. 
 
IV. Procedures 
 
A. Incoming Mail 
All incoming mail, except legal mail and other specifically approved items, must be in metered or pre-stamped postcard form. All postcards shall contain the inmate's name and address as follows: 

JailATM.com- Coweta County Jail 
Inmate's Full Name/Inmate Number 
925 B Peachtree St., NE, Box 2062 
Atlanta, GA 30309 

Effective 01/01/2021 All Post cards sent to 560 Greison Trail will be returned to sender. 

Acceptable Postcard Forms: 
• Postcard minimum size requirements are 3.5 inches by 4.25 inches 
• Postcard maximum allowable size is 4.25 inches by 6 inches 
• Must be written in blue or black ink only 
• Must be white in color and be either metered or contain a preprinted stamp 
 
Unacceptable Postcard Forms: 
• Defaced or altered postcards 
• Plastic or wrappings on postcards 
• Postcards marked with paint, crayons, or markers 
• Postcards with labels or stickers 
• Postcards with watermarks or stains 
• Postcards with any biohazards, including perfume or lipstick 
• Postcards depicting nudity, weapons, or gang references 
• Postcards containing an affixed stamp 
 
Legal mail and money orders are the only incoming inmate mail items that will be accepted in an envelope. Money Orders received in the mail will be applied to the specified inmate’s commissary account.