Sending Funds to Federal Bureau of prisons' Inmates;

As of November 29^th, 2004 all funds must go to the LockBox address for all BOP inmates including those on death row at Terre Haute .

The Federal Bureau of Prisons requires that all funds being mailed to inmates be sent to the Federal Bureau of Prisons’national LockBox, a centralized funds collection point. If you wish to send funds to inmates incarcerated in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, you must send them to the following address:

- Federal Bureau of Prisons
- Insert Inmate Name 
- Insert Register Number 
- Post Office Box 474701 
- Des Moines , Iowa 50947-0001

In order to ensure that your funds are processed to the inmate’s Trust Fund Account, without delay, you must adhere the following directions:

The inmate’s committed name (no nicknames) and register number must be printed on all money orders; U.S. Treasury, state and local government checks. Any foreign negotiable instruments must be payable in U.S. currency.

DO NOT enclose cash, personal checks, letters, pictures or any other itemsin the envelope. Enclose only the allowable negotiable instrument. The national LockBox can not forward any items enclosed with the negotiable instruments to the inmate. Items, personal in nature, must be mailed directly to the institution where the inmate is house.

Your name and return address must appear on the upper left hand corner of the envelope to ensure that your funds can be returned to you in the event that they can not be posted to the inmate’s account.

For more information on Federal Bureau of Prisons correspondence guidelines, go to www.bop.gov

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