Code 1112 sits between Newton's 1111 and Mount Pleasant's 1113, so a single wrong digit sends your letter to a different working prison. Send letters and photos in minutes.
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Nothing posted to Rockwell City reaches anybody. Iowa routes all non-legal mail for its nine prisons to a single PO Box in Las Vegas, where Pigeonly Corrections opens and scans it, and a four-digit code on the address block tells the processing centre which prison the scan belongs to. North Central is 1112. At a prison where the department publishes no visitor cap, no visit length and no phone booking route, letters carry more of the relationship than they do at most Iowa facilities, so getting the address right the first time is worth a minute.
[Full Legal Name, Offender ID Number]
North Central Correctional Facility - 1112
PO Box 96777
Las Vegas, NV 89193
1112 is this prison’s routing code, and it belongs on its own line with the facility name.
The codes run in sequence, so a wrong digit does not fail loudly. It routes your letter to a different working prison, where it will be scanned and delivered to somebody else’s facility. Newton is 1111 and Mount Pleasant is 1113, one either side of this one.
Iowa’s correspondence policy requires the legal name on incoming mail, not a preferred one, alongside the offender ID number.
Iowa’s wording admits no exception: any non-legal mail sent directly to an Iowa Department of Corrections facility will be returned to sender.
So the Rockwell City address is where you go on a Saturday morning and not where you post anything.
Iowa’s correspondence policy, OP-MTV-01, names its mail vendor in its own text rather than describing an anonymous processor. The department contracts with Pigeonly Corrections as its approved mail vendor.
The sequence: your letter reaches the Nevada PO Box, Pigeonly Corrections opens all non-legal mail and scans it into a digital colour copy, and that copy is printed and delivered to the right Iowa prison. The paper original is held for 45 days rather than destroyed right away, and the sender can request it back in that window.
Iowa’s timing rule is that letters are held no more than 24 hours and packages no more than 48 hours before distribution, with up to five days where a security review or translation is needed. That clock starts when the mail reaches the prison, not when it leaves your hands.
Iowa counts mail from financial institutions, religious groups, educational institutions, periodicals, private businesses, health care facilities and third parties as non-legal, so all of it goes through the same Nevada box.
Mail from government agencies is a third category. Iowa treats it as non-legal but issues it through the confidential correspondence process instead.
Iowa caps attachments and enclosures at ten pages or pictures.
The content rules are specific. Female breasts, and the genitalia and buttocks of both sexes, must be substantially obscured or covered by clothing, including swimwear or undergarments, or by another object that is not itself obscene. Lewd display of genitalia, clothed or unclothed, is not allowed.
Duplicates are banned, in the policy’s own phrasing multiple copies of the same or like same photograph. Gang signs are prohibited, and Iowa closes the workaround by naming it: this includes photos that attempt to cover the hand gestures with emojis or similar.
Posted photos are scanned. 4x6, ten at a time, and a colour copy is what arrives rather than the print itself.
Photos sent through Pigeonly arrive in Rockwell City as real colour photographs, selected on your phone and printed, where a posted print would come through as a scan.
Video here runs only on weekday mornings and a visit means a drive into Calhoun County, so for a family working fixed shifts this is often the contact that actually happens.
The original is not destroyed right away. Pigeonly holds it for 45 days, and the sender can request it back for free any time before the last 7 days of that window, so the request needs to go in within the first 38 days.
The parcel goes back only to the address written on the envelope, and the request needs the recipient’s name, offender ID number and facility exactly as they appear on it. It is a one-time request, so a child’s drawing has to be requested on its own, and requested again for the next one.
If the 45 days pass without a request, the original is destroyed and what stays on file is the colour scan already delivered to the facility.
If something is refused, Iowa’s policy gives the sender a route its public pages leave out: the sender is notified by mail or email of the rejection and the reason, and may protest the decision in writing to the warden within 10 days.
Rejected mail is returned to sender with the postage charged to the incarcerated person.
That is worth knowing anywhere in Iowa, and it is worth knowing here in particular, because North Central publishes less than any other Iowa prison about its own rules, which means a family is more likely to guess wrong about something and have it refused.
Iowa places no cap on the number of letters anybody may send or receive, and keeps no mail list restricting who may write. Indigent people inside receive not fewer than two envelopes per week so they can reply.
Some people are barred: those under correctional supervision in the community, with exceptions for immediate family and a note that codefendant status alone does not justify denying communication between spouses; former prisoners for six months after release; victims and victims’ households; and minors where the offence involved a minor.
A person under 18 who is not immediate family must give the institution notarized written permission from a parent or legal guardian before corresponding.
Iowa’s own policy names Pigeonly as the processor, which means a letter you post is travelling to us before it goes anywhere near Rockwell City.
That transit is where the time goes. A posted letter spends 3 to 5 business days reaching a Nevada PO Box before any processing begins, and the scanning, screening, printing and shipping back to Iowa all follow after that.
A free account at Pigeonly removes the transit stage for anything bound for code 1112. You type the letter or choose photos on your phone and we prepare it for printing at our end, so you have nothing to print and nothing to stamp.
There is a second reason it matters at this prison. Video runs only on weekday mornings and in-person visits mean a drive into Calhoun County, so for a family working fixed shifts, letters are often the only regular contact there is.
The PO Box above is still correct and still works. This is the same destination without the days spent reaching it.
Iowa runs a two-vendor rule rather than a publisher-only rule.
A third party may buy books provided they come directly from Books N Things or Edward R. Hamilton Books, and the sender is somebody the incarcerated person is allowed to correspond with. Money can also go onto the account to buy publications from an approved vendor list, and books received directly from the Human Rights Defense Center are approved and cannot come from a third party.
Where a publication is refused on content, a three-person Publications Review Committee decides within 30 working days, and the person inside has 10 days to say whether it should be destroyed, shipped out at his own cost, or appealed. An appeal goes by post to the Deputy Director of Institution Operations, Iowa Department of Corrections, 510 E. 12th Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50319, on form OP-MTV-02 F-2.
At a prison running college courses through Iowa Central Community College, including an online Associate of Arts degree, the publications route matters more than it might elsewhere.
Offender email runs through CorrLinks at $0.25 a message. Register at corrlinks.com.
Iowa’s family-facing page caps a message at 13,000 characters or 100 lines, about two pages, while two departmental policies say 14,000. The contradiction is Iowa’s and it has not been resolved.
The department is blunt about privacy: by its nature O-mail is not confidential, and all incoming and outgoing messages may be inspected and read.
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The person's full legal name and offender ID number, then the line North Central Correctional Facility - 1112, then PO Box 96777, Las Vegas, NV 89193. The 1112 code routes the scan to this prison. Iowa returns to sender any non-legal mail posted to the facility in Rockwell City.
MailThe letter does not bounce. Iowa's codes run in sequence, so a wrong digit routes the scan to a different working prison, with Newton at 1111 and Mount Pleasant at 1113 sitting either side of North Central's 1112. Check the number before sealing the envelope.
MailIt travels to the Nevada PO Box, where Pigeonly Corrections opens all non-legal mail and scans it into a digital colour copy. That copy is printed and delivered to North Central, and the paper original is held for 45 days rather than destroyed right away. Iowa's policy names Pigeonly Corrections as its approved mail vendor, and you can request the original back for free at pigeonly.com/parcel-request within the first 38 days.
MailTen, at 4x6, and Iowa caps attachments and enclosures at ten pages or pictures overall. Duplicates are banned, in the policy's own phrasing multiple copies of the same or like same photograph, and gang signs are prohibited including ones covered with emojis.
MailOnly through the approved route. A third party may buy books provided they are sent directly from Books N Things or Edward R. Hamilton Books, or money can be placed on his account to buy publications from an approved vendor list. North Central runs Iowa Central Community College programmes including an online Associate of Arts degree.
MailYes, and Iowa's public pages omit this. Its correspondence policy says the sender is notified by mail or email of the rejection and the reason, and may protest the decision in writing to the warden within 10 days. Rejected mail goes back to the sender with the postage charged to the incarcerated person.
MailYes, because Iowa's named processor is Pigeonly. A posted letter spends 3 to 5 business days travelling to the Nevada PO Box before processing even begins. A free Pigeonly account removes that leg: you upload the letter or photos from your phone and they are printed and prepared from the processing side. The PO Box still works, this is the same destination without the transit.
MailThrough Pigeonly, yes. Photos uploaded from your phone are printed as real colour photographs and delivered as photographs, and they arrive sooner because they skip the postal leg. Posted photos are scanned like every other enclosure, so a colour copy arrives instead.
MailThe legal name spelling the envelope has to carry.
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