Mail & Photos to Tygart Valley. Address & Rules

The Correct Mailing Address

Personal mail for anyone at Tygart Valley is not delivered to the jail. West Virginia routes it through one statewide scanning center:

[Full Name and OID Number]
Tygart Valley Regional Jail and Correctional Facility
PO Box 336
Phoenix, MD 21131

Two details on that envelope decide whether the letter arrives. The OID number identifies the person, and you can find it with the WV regional jail offender search. The facility name has to be spelled out in full, because the scanning center uses it to route the letter. “TVRJ” is not enough.

Your return address goes in the upper left with your full first and last name. WVDCR does not accept initials.

Do Not Mail 400 Abbey Road

400 Abbey Road is where you go to visit in person. It is not where mail goes. A letter sent to the street address will not reach the person you are writing to.

What Happens to Your Letter

The scanning center opens your envelope, scans the pages, and delivers the images to the person electronically. They read your letter on a tablet or kiosk rather than holding the paper you sent.

Send one person per envelope. If a single envelope contains letters for two people, the whole thing is returned.

Legal mail is the exception. Privileged correspondence from an attorney is handled separately and opened in front of the person.

Photos Are Not Allowed

WVDCR does not permit photographs in inmate mail anywhere in the state, including Tygart Valley. If your envelope contains a photo, it is returned to the sender along with everything else inside it, so the letter is lost too.

That also rules out anything with an image attached: photo greeting cards, printed pictures, and cards with inserts. WVDCR contracts with GettingOut, operated by ViaPath Technologies, for calls and video visits, but it does not publish a way to send a photo digitally. We could not confirm one exists. If you want to try, call (304) 637-0382 and ask the facility what your options are.

What Not to Send

• Photographs of any kind
• Cash (use ConnectNetwork instead)
• Attachments or enclosures of any kind, including cards with glitter, stickers, or attached items
• Letters for more than one person in the same envelope

Violating any of these sends the entire contents back to you.

Send a Letter with Pigeonly

Writing to someone at Tygart Valley means a printer, an envelope, a stamp, and a trip to the post office. Pigeonly handles that part for you: write your letter on your phone and Pigeonly prints and mails it to the WVDCR scanning address, where it is scanned and delivered like any other letter.