Des Moines County Correctional Center Inmate Mail
Send an Inmate Mail in the Des Moines County Correctional Center
The Des Moines County Correctional Center is the county jail on Bauer Drive in Burlington, Iowa. Letters, postcards and legal mail all go to that one address, and the sheriff's office asks that the inmate's name be on every envelope. Ordinary envelopes are fine.
Personal letters, legal mail and subscriptions:
Inmate's Full Name & Inmate ID#
Des Moines County Correctional Center
3630 Bauer Drive
Burlington, IA 52601
- Return address: Your full name and return address belong on every envelope or postcard you send.
- Pen color: Stick with plain blue or black ink.
- Magazines and newspapers: A subscription must be mailed by the publisher. A magazine with swearing, gun photos or sexual content is taken instead of delivered.
- Books: Graphic, pornographic or obscene books are thrown away.
- Money: Don't fold money into a letter. Put funds on their account through online deposits, which pay for commissary once a week.
- Legal mail: Lawyers and courts use the same Bauer Drive address as family.
Short notes can also go by text message through the jail's messaging service.
Mail Questions for the Bauer Drive Jail
Will Des Moines County deliver my letter if I leave off the return address to keep it private?
Can my sister get her hometown newspaper mailed to her in Burlington?
Is a gel-pen letter in purple ink acceptable at the Des Moines County Correctional Center?
Which five-digit postal code finishes the address for an inmate housed at the Des Moines County Correctional Center?
Use 52601; it follows Burlington, IA as the last line of the Bauer Drive address block.
Will Des Moines County deliver my letter if I leave off the return address to keep it private?
Probably not, since the jail's listing states that Bauer Drive envelopes missing the writer's full name and mailing address never get handed to the prisoner.
Can my sister get her hometown newspaper mailed to her in Burlington?
Yes, if the publisher ships it directly to her at 3630 Bauer Drive, per the listing.
Is a gel-pen letter in purple ink acceptable at the Des Moines County Correctional Center?
Better to rewrite it; the listing says blue or black ink is best for Bauer Drive mail.
Emailing an Inmate
Text Messages for Burlington Inmates
Letters are not the only written channel into Bauer Drive: Glendening's jail page names text messaging as a paid service alongside calls and video, all of it funded through one online family account.