How to write to someone at Minnesota Correctional Facility - Rush City
Personal letters for people at Minnesota Correctional Facility - Rush City go to Minnesota's mail center below, not to the prison. Fill in the person's name and ID number where marked.
Checked against the department's own pages . How we check, and corrections
PERSONAL LETTERS GO TO
Dashed lines are for you to fill in, in the department's own words.
Personal mail goes to a statewide P.O. Box, not to the prison itself. The facility line should read MCF-[facility name], Minnesota, with Minnesota spelled out. Books and magazine subscriptions go to the facility's own address instead.
Legal mail from lawyers and courts has its own address or rules: see the department's mail page.
- Where letters go
- To a department-wide mail center, not the prison
- What happens to them
- Scanned
- What they get
- A printed copy
“TextBehind will copy all items and mail the copy to the facility for distribution.” Department source
Street address (not for letters unless the department says so): 7600 525th St., Rush City, MN 55069
“Unacceptable mail: TextBehind does not accept legal mail, money orders, personal checks, gift cards or cash in the mail, and these items will be returned to the sender.”
No one at Minnesota Correctional Facility - Rush City 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.
Minnesota: Minnesota DOC's email page (read only through a page-reading tool, because it renders with JavaScript) says you need the person's ID number before you can send and gives 40 cents a stamp. Re-check in a browser before publishing the price.
Questions
What is the mailing address for Minnesota Correctional Facility - Rush City?
Personal mail goes to the department's mail center: First Name / Last name, and OID, MCF-Rush City, Minnesota, P.O. Box 247, Phoenix, MD 21131.
Is mail scanned at Minnesota Correctional Facility - Rush City?
Yes. Personal letters are scanned at a department-wide mail center. The person receives a printed copy.
Can I message someone at Minnesota Correctional Facility - Rush City electronically?
Minnesota uses JPay. On JPay, you make an account, add the person by name and ID number, and pay per message.
Can someone at Minnesota Correctional Facility - Rush City be listed on a pen pal site?
We found no rule in Minnesota'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: Minnesota Correctional Facility - Rush City page, Minnesota 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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