Job Description:

• 1) Opens and inspects incoming and outgoing correspondence and packages to ensure compliance with prison security rules: Reads incoming and outgoing correspondence of prisoners with adjustment problems or suspected of forbidden activities, such as planning escapes or attempting to contact confederates outside prison.

• 2) Removes money mailed to prisoners, prepares receipt, and forwards to security office for safekeeping.

• 3) Impounds contraband articles, such as weapons and drugs, and notifies proper authorities of rules violations.

• 4) Returns to sender, articles prisoners are forbidden to possess.

• 5) May evaluate content of incoming correspondence, conferring with psychiatric staff to protect inmate against information considered injurious to prisoner's emotional welfare or adjustment.