Family and friends can contact an inmate through the following ways:
Letters: Inmates can contact family and friends in the outside world through letters. For details, please refer to Question 15.
Visit sessions: To make an inmate visit on prison premises, inmates’ family and friends can apply for a visiting permit. For details regarding the visiting permit, please visit
www.dsc.gov.mo/siteen/visit.aspx?id=20.
Telephone: Upon an inmate’s admission to prison, the Prison will immediately arrange the inmate to call his/her family. The inmate can also inform his/her family of his/her being in prison through the help of the Prison’s social workers/counselors. Thereafter, if necessary, the inmate may apply to call his/her family on a periodical basis.