Sending Photos to Inmates at Southern Desert Correctional Center

If you want to send pictures to an inmate at Southern Desert Correctional Center (SDCC), you have to do it the right way. If you violate any of the prison’s rules for sending pictures to an inmate, that important person in your life will not get those images.

Southern Desert Correction Center aerial view
Aerial View of Southern Desert Correction Center in Indian Springs

Inmate Photos is the best way to send pictures to Southern Desert Correctional Center (SDCC). We know what the state allows and does not allow. We make sure you get the most recent version of the rules for sending pictures to inmates.

We are the experts for sending pictures to those important people in your life who are in prison.

The History of Southern Desert Correctional Center

Southern Desert Correctional Center, also known as Indian Springs Prison, is a state prison located in Clark County, NV, in the Las Vegas region. Southern Desert is located just south of High Desert State Prison. Both are southwest of US High 95, also called Veterans Memorial Highway. The physical address is:

20825 Cold Creek Road
Indian Springs, Nevada 89070

Southern Desert Correctional Center opened in 1982. The state’s fourth major prison started life as a federal facility. The state took over in 1987. It started with seven 102-bed cells. Another 200-bed unit opened in 1989. In 2008, the state added another two 240-bed dorm-style units. The medium-security facility’s current capacity is 2,149 men.

Mailing Pictures to Southern Desert Correctional Facility

The Nevada Department of Corrections has rules for mailing pictures to people in prison. Each state corrections center may have additional rules or requirements. Inmate Photos has the list of rules for Southern Desert Correctional Center. We check with the prison regularly to make sure we have the most current information.

When you use our service to send pictures to that important someone at Southern Desert Correctional Center, we send you the list of rules. You check the rules and make sure your pictures meet the current regulations. You send us pictures, and we send them for you.

Some of the rules for pictures are:

  • The prison staff opens and inspects all mail for contraband and anything that may violate prison rules.
  • Nudity is allowed, but pentration is not.
  • Pictures are delivered during mail call.
  • Inmates can receive 10 photos per envelope.
  • The maximum picture size is 8×10″.

Inmate Photos can separate your pictures into two or more mailings if needed. We make sure each envelope does not have more pictures than the rules allow. We space the mailings over multiple days to ensure the inmate does not get more mail than allowed per day.

Each picture must have the inmate’s name and Nevada Department of Corrections number on the back. Envelopes have to be addressed as follows:

INMATE NAME & DOC NUMBER
Southern Desert Correctional Center
P.O. Box 208
Indian Springs,
Nevada 89070-0208

Pictures cannot be mailed to the physical address.

Emailing Photos to Inmates

You can email pictures to inmates at Southern Desert Correctional Center. However, you also need to know this:

  • Inmates do not receive the email directly. The prison staff opens all email and reads everything first. Approved messages and pictures are printed and handed out at mail call.
  • Approved pictures are printed in black and white on plain paper. If you send high-resolution pictures in beautiful colors, the inmate will not see that.
  • The Nevada Department of Corrections contracts with Corrlinks to provide email services.

Inmate’s Use of Handheld Devices

Inmates at Southern Desert Correctional Center are allowed to have handheld devices, an MP3 player, in this case, that can display pictures. Inmates must purchase the MP3 player from the prison commissary, and the price is not cheap. Pictures stored on the device must also meet the prison’s rules for printed pictures.

The MP3 player also comes with rules. If the inmate violates a Southern Desert Correctional Center rule, he can lose the use of the MP3 player. If the staff takes the device away, it can be erased. All the pictures stored are lost.

Emailed photos have an expiration date on them, so they only last so long.

When you send pictures with Inmate Photos, those pictures are considered personal property. If the person violates in-prison rules, the pictures are stored while the inmate is going through the discipline process. Pictures are returned to the person when he is done with the internal prison process.

The Best Way to Send Photos to Southern Desert Correctional Center

At Inmate Photos, we make it easy to send pictures to an inmate at Southern Desert Correctional Center.

You can download our app from the Play Store or the App Store. Be sure to read the list of rules we show to you while ordering. Make sure your pictures meet the Indian Springs prison rules. Upload your pictures and information to Inmate Photos through the app.

We print the pictures. We use commercial-quality professional photo paper and vibrant ink at high resolution. We send the best possible pictures to the inmate at SDCC.

Need to send pictures to an inmate in another facility? Inmate Photos works with more than 6,000 corrections facilities across the nation, including some juvenile detention centers.