Systems and methods for processing requests to send private postal mail to an inmate
AssigneeHLFIP Holding, Inc.
InventorsJonathan D. Logan, Justin Scott
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Abstract
A method and system for maintaining privacy in private postal mail, such as privileged or other legal postal mail or medical mail, at a correctional facility comprising a privacy verification system to verify a privacy status of a sender and generate privacy status identifiers to be used on the legal postal mail. The privacy status identifiers when scanned or observed at a mail processing facility that processes incoming mail sent to inmates who are incarcerated in a correctional facility provides an indication to the mail processing facility that the mail is private so that appropriate measures can be taken to maintain privacy status.
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A computer program product for processing requests to send private postal mail to an inmate who is incarcerated at a correctional facility, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions encoded thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- obtain a request from a sender to send private postal mail;
- obtain sender verification data;
- verify a privacy status of the sender, wherein the privacy status is comprised of a theoretical ability to send private postal mail to anyone, and wherein the verification is comprised of verifying the sender verification data with data available in one or more databases;
- generate a privacy status identifier if the privacy status of the sender is verified, wherein the privacy status identifier may be affixed to a private postal mail to indicate that a postal mail that is sent to an inmate it private;
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- obtain privacy status identifier data comprising at least one of a date that the privacy status identifier was generated, a date that the request to send private postal mail was received, and sender identity.
A computer-implemented method for identifying, verifying, and processing private postal mail that is sent to an inmate who is incarcerated in a correctional facility, the computer-implemented method comprising:
- obtaining a request from a sender to send private postal mail;
- obtaining sender verification data;
- verifying a privacy status of the sender, wherein the privacy status is comprised of a theoretical ability to send private postal mail to anyone, and wherein the verification is comprised of verifying the sender provided data with data available in one or more databases;
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- generating a privacy status identifier if the privacy status of the sender is verified, wherein the privacy status identifier may be affixed to a private postal mail to indicate that a postal mail that is sent to an inmate it private
A computer program product for processing postal mail that is sent to an inmate who is incarcerated in a correctional facility, wherein one or more postal mail that is received at a mail processing system for the correction facility is marked as private by an identifier, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions encoded thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- automatically reject digitization efforts on private postal mail that is marked as private by a privacy status identifier, wherein the privacy status identifier is generated by a privacy verification system by:
- obtaining a request from a sender to send private postal mail;
- obtaining sender provided data;
- verifying a privacy status of the sender, wherein the privacy status is comprised of a theoretical ability to send private postal mail to anyone, and wherein the verification is comprised of independently verifying the sender provided data with data available in one or more databases;
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- generating the privacy status identifier if the privacy status of the sender is verified.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.