U.S. Patent No. 10,291,617

MailGuardLegal®Privileged Mail Solution

As legal mail is protected by client/attorney privilege, it is unlawful for this type of mail to be inspected by correctional staff. Criminals are aware of this fact and try to use legal mail as means to get contraband and narcotics into a facility.

MailGuardLegal® allows inmate legal mail to be delivered in such a way that it is 100% contraband free without jeopardizing inmates privilege or confidentiality rights. MailGuardLegal® allows inmates to open, scan and process privileged legal mail in the presence of staff. Once scanned, the inmate can use the MailGuardLegal® Cart to print a hard copy of the scanned file or mark the file for secure electronic delivery.

A file marked for electronic delivery can immediately be accessed by the inmate on a SmartTablet™ and/or SmartKiosk™ by entering a separate password. To preserve confidentiality, facility staff have no access to any scanned privileged mail files.

Depending on the facility's existing policy, the original copy of the privileged mail is bagged and placed into inmate property or destroyed via the MailGuardLegal® Cart's built‐in paper shredder.

Our patented MailGuard® finally eliminates one of corrections longest running problems and security loopholes — contraband and secret communications in inmate postal mail. MailGuard® completely cuts off the last conduits of drugs and undocumented inmate communications with the outside world, eliminating contraband and streamlining inmate mail into a labor-free process.

MailGuard® is used in many correctional agencies across the country, ranging in size from 100 inmate county jails, to over 50,000 inmate State Department of Corrections.

Smart Elite Agencies

Stopping contraband for Good!

“The MailGuard system is a quick and efficient way for inmates to receive photos and letters electronically and will streamline operations within the jail." By making this switch, we’re also limiting the amount of items coming into the jail which adds to the safety of our inmates and staff." Sheriff Bill Waybourn, Tarrant County TX

The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office announced Smart Communications to provide MailGuard electronic mail services to the jail.

“We’ve had prisons throughout the United States have experienced an increase in drugs coming into the facilities sprayed on paper, smuggled in on paper, fentanyl being probably the most proliferate,” Tim Hatch, Deputy Director

New Mexico Corrections Department to launch tablets in prison facilities

"Throughout the nation, a large sum of detention centers face a new emerging threat of illicit substances introduced into the jail. Inmates discovered a method of exploiting the privileged correspondence of legal mail as a vessel to transport illicit drugs inside the secured area of the detention center.

Under the guise of legal mail, the papers are soaked and dried with harmful substances. These often consist of THC, synthetic cannabinoids, fentanyl, and other narcotic analgesics. Risks of overdose, injuries to inmates and staff amassed substantial concerns with the compromised vulnerability of legal mail.

In a meeting with our strategic partner, Smart Communications offered yet another solution to an existing challenge. With use of a specialized cart, scanned documents of legal mail become accessible to inmates through encrypted files. The tangible papers themselves do not enter the cell, as they either become stored within inmate personal property or shredded in the presence of the inmate.

This new practice of disseminating legal mail is currently in the implementation phase at this detention center, and we are enthusiastic about cutting down on drugs entering the facility."

Sheriff Mike Griffis, Ector County Texas

Ector County Eliminates Drug Smuggling in Fraudulent Legal Mail

Discover how our patented MailGuard® and MailGuardLegal® completely eliminated contraband hidden in inmate postal & fraudulent legal mail.

Louisville Metro Department of Corrections

Relentless drug smuggling through inmate mail created an overdose epidemic, concerns over officer, staff and facility exposure risks, put the community and this agency on edge.

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SmartEd™ Educational, Rehabilitation Programs

• Eliminate Contraband and Drugs

• Rehabilitate all Inmates

• Educate all Inmates

• Connect and Engage all Inmates for Free

• Provide Reentry Programming to all Inmates