Add your photos from your phone, Facebook, and Instagram to the Inmate Photos website or app.
We print your images using our high-end and state of the art printers and then deliver them to the inmate’s facility
Your order will be inspected by the staff at the facility and any photos that do not violate rules will be given to the inmate
Sending photos to jail is not as straightforward as it sounds. Each jail has its own rules for sending photos. When sending photos to correctional facilities, the mailroom will reject your pictures if you get just one thing wrong.
The mailroom rules are usually hard to track down and are often out of date, and that is where Inmate Photos shines.
At Inmate Photos, we invest huge amounts of time into staying up to date on each facility’s mailroom policies related to incoming mail and photos. That is why when we ship a photo package to a facility, we have all the confidence in the world that the inmate will get it.
Jails usually encourage a loved one and family members to send photos to their inmates because there is nothing better than a good support system for your incarcerated loved one.
When sending photos to prison, it is important to note that some facilities require that the package be mailed directly from a company rather than from a loved one or family member.
Most facilities do not regulate who can send pictures to an inmate, except for mail coming from other inmates. In general, inmate-to-inmate correspondence is not allowed at most facilities.
Correctional facilities are notorious for having complex rules regarding their incoming mail policies, and that is where we come in. Every prison and jail has its own rules about the types of pictures someone can send to inmates.
A universal rule is that images cannot contain anything harmful to the security of the prison. Another common rule is images cannot show illegal activity. Avoid sending anything inappropriate or incriminating.
Inmate Photos keeps a current list of the rules for more than 4,000 prisons, jails, and youth detention centers across the United States. Before you upload photos for a facility, we will show you the rules of the facility’s mailroom.
There are many benefits to using the Inmate Photos app.
Our upfront pricing lets you know the exact cost that includes everything we do; we have no hidden fees.
There are many reasons why people love this app beyond us having transparent pricing. Let us highlight a few of the reasons.
We make it easy to send good-quality color prints to your loved one in a correctional facility. You can add images from your phone, social media account, or other places. If you can email the image from your phone, you can send it with Inmate Photos.
Easily connect Google Photos, Facebook, and Instagram to your account.
If we get your images during regular business hours, they go out that day. If you send them when the office is closed, we print and mail them the next day. Pictures are usually delivered to the facility within 2-3 days. We ask you to wait for about two weeks before calling if the pictures were not received.
Another general rule is the inmate’s name and ID number must be on the back of the image. Inmate Photos prints the inmate number on the back for you. Most, but not all, facilities require this. It helps to ensure the photos are not stolen.
We have invested huge amounts of money in buying the most up-to-date photo printing machines, so you can rest assured the prints the inmate will receive will be of the highest quality.
If the inmate does not receive the photos because you chose the wrong address for the facility or they just got lost in the mail, we will reship the order free. For example, if you send photos to Cook County Jail, but the inmate is at Maricopa County jail, we will reship the photos for free.
Being incarcerated is a very lonely time in a person’s life, and you should know how important pictures are to the incarcerated.
Pictures help remind inmates that their loved ones are more important than any drama happening behind the walls. That reminder can help give them a reason to stay out of trouble and to work on the issues within themselves that landed them behind bars in the first place.
When someone is incarcerated in prison, you know that maintaining close contact can help them complete their sentence easier. A letter from you and a family photo makes a huge difference in their dull environment. Inmate Photos helps you keep that family connection.
We ship to most correctional facilities in the United States. We cover federal, state, county, city, and even some juvenile facilities.
We have researched the daily limits that each facility has on the number of photos they will allow in. If you order more than that limit, we deliver them the following days.
Inmates want the photos you’re sending, and that is why we make sure that they reach them ASAP. Within one business day of you ordering the photos are on the way to the facility.
Our customer service team wants to help. We're here to answer all your questions and concerns!
We ship to most correctional facilities in the United States. We cover federal, state, county, city, and even some juvenile facilities.
We have researched the daily limits that each facility has on the number of photos they will allow in. If you order more than that limit, we deliver them the following days.
Inmates want the photos you’re sending, and that is why we make sure that they reach them ASAP. Within one business day of you ordering the photos are on the way to the facility.
Our customer service team wants to help. We're here to answer all your questions and concerns!
We generally have the photos at the facility within 2 to 3 business days. The amount of time required for a facility to review photos and hand them to the inmate varies. For this reason, we ask that you give it two weeks after you place your order before inquiring about where the inmate's photos are.
Yes, the photos are printed on a high-end commercial printer, and they are physical photos that are delivered to the facility.
Most facilities will return photos that violate rules to you. You will not be refunded for these photos if that does happen.
We understand the challenges facing prisons and jails when it comes to contraband. If you are a staff member at a facility, we welcome you to contact us
You can add funds to the inmate's photo account balance, but you should not confuse this with adding funds to the inmate's commissary account. The inmate can only use these funds to purchase photos uploaded for them but never were purchased.
If the civilian uploads photos but does not complete their purchase, we may offer the inmate a chance to purchase the photos as long as we have reason to believe the images were intended for that inmate.
Facilities have daily limits, so if you exceeded that limit, the inmate would receive your order over multiple days. It is also possible that if you send photos that violate facility rules, they only give the photos with approved content to the inmate.
We send an email to the email address you provided that has a link in it that you need to click on. This is so we can confirm the email address belongs to you. Please find the email and click on the link.
Some facilities will forward the photos to the inmate for a limited amount of time. If that doesn't happen, the photos will be returned to the return address you put in
We print out the photos as soon as you place your order, and for this reason, we cannot offer refunds
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