How to write to someone at York Correctional Institution
Mail personal letters to the address below, filling in the person's name and ID number where marked.
Checked against the department's own pages . How we check, and corrections
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Dashed lines are for you to fill in, in the department's own words.
Put the person's full name and their inmate number on the envelope, along with the facility's address. Please don't use padded mailing envelopes.
Legal mail from lawyers and courts has its own address or rules: see the department's mail page.
- Where letters go
- To the prison
- What happens to them
- The department doesn't say
- What they get
- The department doesn't say
“All correspondence must include the inmate's full name, inmate number and address of the facility.” Department source
Street address (not for letters unless the department says so): 201 West Main Street, Niantic, CT 06357
“All correspondence must include the inmate's full name, inmate number and address of the facility.”
No one at York Correctional Institution is listed yet. Know someone there who wants mail? List them for $50.
JPay
You start it from outside.
- Create a free account at jpay.com or in the JPay app.
- Search for the person by state and their ID number. If you do not know the ID, look it up on the state's inmate search first.
- Buy stamps (or a subscription where offered). Each email uses a stamp; photos and VideoGrams use more.
- Write and send your email. Depending on the facility, the person can reply, view or print it.
Connecticut: Inside cannot start: people inside are only allowed to contact friends and family who set up JPay accounts and added them to their approved E-Messaging list.
Questions
What is the mailing address for York Correctional Institution?
Inmate full name and inmate number, York Correctional Institution, 201 West Main Street, Niantic, CT 06357.
Is mail scanned at York Correctional Institution?
Connecticut's pages don't say whether letters are scanned or copied. Check its mail page.
Can I message someone at York Correctional Institution electronically?
Connecticut uses JPay. On JPay, you make an account, add the person by name and ID number, and pay per message.
Can someone at York Correctional Institution be listed on a pen pal site?
We found no rule in Connecticut's published policies against it, and normal mail rules still apply. Rules change; the department's page is the final word.
Something wrong or out of date? Tell us and we fix it from the department's page. How we check.
Sources: York Correctional Institution page, Connecticut mail rules, read 2026-10-07. Rules change; the department's page is the final word. Find someone: official inmate locator.
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