Michael A. Kimelman, a hedge fund trader on the outer edge of Raj Rajaratnam‘s enormous insider trading conspiracy, reported to the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Monday, surrendering at the United States Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa.

The new wry, automated response on his e-mail: “This email address is currently at a re-education camp for the indeterminate future and will not be checked. Please try back once its lesson has been learned. Mike”

His lawyer, Morris Fodeman, a newly named partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, said that Mr. Kimelman would eventually get e-mail access in prison, where he would then be able to get in touch.

A New York Times colleague, Diana Henriques, has also been corresponding withBernard L. Madoff, who is serving 150 years for his Ponzi scheme.

All of this got DealBook wondering: How does prison e-mail work anyway?

Chris Burke, a spokesman at the Federal Bureau of Prisons, said that inmates had corresponded over computers since 2005. But inmates do not technically have access to e-mail. Nor can they tool around on Facebook or Twitter. Mr. Burke belabored the point: Inmates have no Internet access at all.

Instead, federal prisoners use a system called Trulincs, an acronym for the Trust Fund Limited Inmate Computer System. They must apply to use the system and, once accepted, gain limited access to a computer, on which they can tap out messages to the outside world.

The system is developed by the Advanced Technologies Group, a company based in West Des Moines, Iowa, that specializes in software programs for correctional facilities.

The prisoners’ e-mails are all reviewed, typically by staff at the prison where the inmate is located. Once approved, the e-mails are then forwarded to a Web site hosted by A.T.G. called CorrLinks. On CorrLinks, the e-mail recipients sign on to the Web site and must approve the receipt of e-mail, something akin to accepting a collect call.

So are taxpayers’ dollars financing the e-mail communications of federal prisoners? Not at all, Mr. Burke said. Inmates pay five cents a minute to use the computer. Those proceeds are put into something called the Inmate Trust Fund, which in addition to fees from computer usage, includes fees from the commissary and telephone calls.

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