How to write to someone at ECF-East Unit
The department's pages don't list a personal mail address for ECF-East Unit. Use the official inmate locator or the department's mail page to confirm where to write.
Checked against the department's own pages . How we check, and corrections
MAIL TO
Not listed on the department's pages.
Envelope order: full name and #KDOC number, facility name, address, city, state, zip. Add your name and address or it won't be delivered. Send only letters or photos, no stamps. The department lists P.O. Box 107, Ellsworth, KS 67439 but doesn't say it's for personal mail; check with the facility before you write.
Legal mail from lawyers and courts has its own address or rules: see the department's mail page.
- Custody
- minimum custody
- Type
- satellite unit of Ellsworth Correctional Facility
- City
- Ellsworth
- Phone
- (785) 472-5501
- Where letters go
- To the prison
- What happens to them
- Opened and inspected; the letter itself is delivered
- What they get
- Your original letter
“The Kansas Department of Corrections will not accept any item mailed into a correctional facility other than letters or photographs.” Department source
“The Kansas Department of Corrections will not accept any item mailed into a correctional facility other than letters or photographs.”
No one at ECF-East Unit is listed yet. Know someone there who wants mail? List them for $50.
GettingOut
Either of you can send the request; both accept.
- Create an account at gettingout.com or in the GettingOut app, then activate it from the email they send you.
- Add the person as a contact. In some states the person inside can instead send you an email invitation that links to GettingOut.
- The person inside must accept your contact request (or you accept theirs) before you can message.
- Deposit funds into your Friends & Family account, then send messages from the Message tab.
Kansas: Use gettingout.com/kansas-doc. $0.25 per message, $0.25 per photo, $1.75 per 30-second video.
Questions
What is the mailing address for ECF-East Unit?
The department's pages don't list a personal mail address for ECF-East Unit. Use the official inmate locator or the department's mail page to confirm where to write.
Is mail scanned at ECF-East Unit?
No. Personal letters are opened and inspected, and the letter itself is delivered at the prison. The person receives your original letter.
Can I message someone at ECF-East Unit electronically?
Kansas uses GettingOut. On GettingOut, either side can send the contact request, and both have to accept it.
Can someone at ECF-East Unit be listed on a pen pal site?
We found no rule in Kansas'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: ECF-East Unit page, Kansas 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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