It depends on where he is and what the level of custody the facility is. If it is a low-medium-high prison, visitation will most likely not be available in the first week.

That is a great question. It's been that way for decades. The federal system has an email program now called Corrlinks. It's free for you to use, but the inmate pays per minute that they are in the system. That is a great way to remain in contact. There is a bonus of an extra 100 minutes per month for November and December - so they have 400 minutes for the holidays.

Normally the release date includes the "good time credits", therefore we would not be optimistic that there would be additional reductions unless the inmate becomes a cooperating witness in another case that results in a conviction. At that point the government would likely offer a sentence reduction depending on the value of the information and the level of cooperation.

This means that your inmate has been well-behaved and earned a custody/security-level status reduction. The work camp is a detail that is reserved for the most trusted inmates. Their living conditions are more like an army barracks than a prison. There are no cells and very few if any fences. Their daily routine starts to resemble more like a normal citizen than a typical inmate (where movement is restricted and rules are tight). We think you should view this as

Parolees are normally not allowed visitation without permission from the warden. The out date calculation has everything to do with the wording in the Judgement and Commitment document signed by the judge. If there is wording about parole, or work release or nothing at all. If it is a normal state sentence, he will probably have to do 85% of the imposed sentence. That would be about 255 months or 21 1/4 years.

Minimum custody prison is similar to army barracks living. There are normally no fences and the un-prison-like setting there is almost surreal considering you are serving a sentence. For this "benefit" there is an understanding that the prospect of being transferred to a "real prison" for breaking the rules exists and creates a calmer experience among the inmates than other situations in higher custody level facilities might have.  Forty months is no joke, but being in a camp versus a walled prison

Inmates that have money on their inmate trust accounts can purchase stamps and envelopes at the weekly commissary. If they do not have money on their books, the prison will provide indigent inmates with all the materials necessary to send out mail to their loved ones. If your inmate writes to you directly, using your address, the cost of the mailing is a 49 cent stamp. Many of our members use the Inmate Response Mail service through InmateAid. Your inmate

Signature bond is like a "get out of jail free card". When a criminal suspect is arrested, booked, and granted "own recognizance" release, no bail money needs to be paid to the court, and no bond is posted. The suspect is merely released after promising, in writing, to appear in court for all upcoming proceedings. Failure to appear and there will be no amount of money to release you.

Please explain - Put on probation in 2012, been locked up since 2014 - time served since 2012 ??  This does not make sense to us - clearly he is not getting time served as he is still incarcerated. If he really got time-served he would not be incarcerated. Based on what we know, if your inmate has a release date of 8-29-2016 - "good time" credits earned in most cases is about 10-15% available without any incident reports.  A

The typical guideline to follow is that most sentences come with built-in "good-time credits".  This is normally 15% of the total. Assuming this is available to you, 85% of 120 months is 102 months. Then there is halfway house (if available) which might carve another 3-9 months off the sentence. Be mindful that the halfway house is still a form of incarceration but reserved for inmates with no conduct problems or incident reports.