A professional who opens and inspects incoming and outgoing correspondence and packages to ensure compliance with prison security rules. Respnsibilities include:

• Reads incoming and outgoing correspondence (with permission of appropriate jurisdiction) of prisoners with adjustment problems or suspected of forbidden activities, such as planning escapes or attempting to contact confederates outside prison.
• Removes money mailed to prisoners, prepares receipt, and forwards to security office for safekeeping.
• Impounds contraband articles, such as weapons and drugs, and notifies proper authorities of rules violations.
• Returns to sender, articles prisoners are forbidden to possess.
• May evaluate content of incoming correspondence, conferring with psychiatric staff to protect inmate against information considered injurious to prisoner's emotional welfare or adjustment.