New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 10A - CORRECTIONS › Chapter 18 - MAIL, VISITS AND TELEPHONE › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 10A:18-1.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Contact visit" means a visit between an inmate and a visitor where there is no barrier, such as, but not limited to, a window or wall between the inmate and visitor.
"Correspondence" means communication by the exchange of letters.
"Electronic correspondence" means content sent or received electronically, including email, e-photos, e-videos, e-books, and other similar materials, sent over a secure computer network through a contracted electronic communications service provider approved kiosk system and software.
"Interoffice correspondence" means the exchange of correspondence between offices within the Department of Corrections.
"Legitimate public official" means the following:
1. An elected or appointed national, state or municipal government official; or
2. A director of a national, state or municipal government agency.
"Non-contact visit" means a visit between an inmate and a visitor where there is a physical barrier, such as, but not limited to, a window or wall between the inmate and the visitor. Non-contact visits shall not involve the use of non-security cameras, closed circuit TV, and similar technology to effect the visit.
"Obscene material" means any description, narrative account, display, depiction of a specified anatomical area or specified sexual activity contained in, or consisting of, a picture or other representation, publication, sound recording, live performance, or film, which by means of posing, composition, format, or animated sensual details, emits sensuality with sufficient impact to concentrate prurient interest on the area or activity.
"Pornography" means printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate erotic, rather than aesthetic or emotional feelings. This term includes the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures, speech, or writing) and/or acts in a sensational manner, so as to arouse a quick intense emotional reaction.
"Publication" means a book, booklet, pamphlet, or similar document, or an issue of a magazine, periodical, newsletter, newspaper, plus such other materials addressed to a specific inmate, such as advertising brochures, flyers, and catalogs.
"Sexually explicit" means any communication, language, or material, including a photographic or video image portraying the nude human body, or parts thereof, in such a pose or posture that the viewer's attention or concentration is focused on the female breasts or male or female genitals that are exposed or provocatively emphasized, or both, or that relate to, or describe, sexual conduct.
"Truck mail" means interoffice mail that is exchanged between correctional facilities and mail that is exchanged between correctional facilities, units and the Department of Corrections Central Office. Truck mail does not include mail sent by the United States Postal Service.
"Video gram" means a video message electronically sent or received over a secure computer network through a contracted electronic communications service provider.
"Video visitation" means a visit between an inmate and a visitor conducted virtually over a secure computer network through a contracted electronic communications service provider.