The Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center will stop accepting physical print materials for inmates as part of a new digital mail delivery system aimed at reducing contraband, officials announced.
The system replaces hand-delivered mail with scanned digital copies accessible via tablets, with scanning performed off-site by third-party service ViaPath Technologies. MDC staff will then review documents for violations of the inmate mail policy before digital delivery.
Legal mail, internal education materials and other approved documents will continue to be delivered physically, according to the announcement…