Subject: Marriage in prison
Not sure. Facilities that allow marriage do so mainly for long-term sentenced inmates. We would advise calling the chaplain and asking what their policy is.
Subject: Send inmate mail
It is delivered to them by a Corrections Officer at mail call Monday - Friday.
Subject: Sentencing questions
When an inmate is sentenced to serve time, an Earned Release Supervision (ERS) date, a tentative release date and a maximum release date are configured. The earned release supervision date is based on an inmate serving a percentage of their sentence. For example, an inmate may be required to serve 85% of a sentence in a facility and is eligible to serve the remaining 15% on ERS.
There are many factors that are considered in calculating an inmate’s ERS date. An...
Read moreSubject: Inmate phone calls
You will have to notify the inmate. We offer the free use of our letter service if you'd like to use it as a means to relay the new number and what they will need to do to use it. Send us an email to aid@inmateaid.com to request a coupon code for this letter. We will usually throw in a free photo for you to send as well
Subject: Sentencing questions
The custody and security levels are set by the Department of Corrections or the Bureau of Prisons. Their determination cannot be challenged or appealed. Your inmate might have something in his past that has cultivated a profile that brought the administration to determine this level of custody. There could be an issue of available bed space. There is no "supposed to" in prison. Outside forces have no bearing on the way the inside runs it's facilities. You can always call...
Read moreSubject: Send inmate mail
Yes, mail is considered sacred in prison and even during lock down, administrative or disciplinary segregation the mail still gets delivered to the inmates.
Subject: Send inmate mail
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 would...
Read moreSubject: Send inmate mail
Yes, we will absolutely resend the mail for you to the new location - NO CHARGE. Just send us the new institution and we will make the change in your inmate's profile and send it them that same day. Email us:
Aid@InmateAid.com
Subject: Send inmate mail
There is no return-receipt feature to this service. The only way you will know for sure is when your inmate thanks you for sending it. Mail takes a couple of days through USPS. Once it arrives in the mail room it is up to the staff to read the letters, review the pictures and determine when they will hand it to the inmates at mail call
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Subject: Sentencing questions
You can check with the Clerk of the Court where he was sentenced. Ask for a copy of the Judgement and Commitment Order signed by the judge. It will have the confinement order and any fine, restitution or court fees owed. If the jail is charging a daily incarceration fee like some jails are now doing, you will have to call them as find out what the rate is.
