Subject: Furloughs
It depends on where, but MOST facilities have completely stopped conjugal visits... bummer :(
Subject: Inmate services & supplies
Mail call at Riverhead typically runs around 4 pm. Once the mailroom processes and clears incoming mail, it is distributed to the housing units at that time. Keep in mind that the actual delivery to the inmate's hands depends on when the letter arrives at the facility, clears the mailroom inspection, and makes it to the next mail call rotation.
On phone calls, inmates at Riverhead can make as many calls as time and their account balance allow. There is no...
Read moreSubject: Parole & probation
Usually once a month
Subject: Website function questions
The process is simple and costs your inmate nothing on their end.
Every letter and postcard sent through InmateAid includes InmateAid's Florida address as the return address on the envelope. When your inmate wants to write back, they simply address their reply to that Florida address and mail it out through the facility's regular outgoing mail using a postage stamp. That stamp is the only thing it costs them, and indigent inmates who have no money on their books can typically...
Read moreSubject: Survive prison
Probably not, inmates have a tendency to overstate their treatment to gain sympathy from the outside world in the pursuit of money being placed on their commissary. We encourage adding a little money to their books from time to time, but they need to be straight with you, too
Subject: Furloughs
Furloughs cannot be requested or petitioned from the outside. That decision comes entirely from within the correctional system, initiated through internal channels and granted at the discretion of facility administration.
Four months is also not enough time served to be considered for a furlough in virtually any system. Furloughs are reserved for inmates who have demonstrated an extended track record of compliance, programming completion, and institutional trust. That takes considerably longer than four months to establish, regardless of how well someone...
Read moreSubject: Inmate services & supplies
An inmate's "business" while incarcerated is private and they are afforded the same protection anyone on the outside would. Therefore, that information is not available. If you "know" this random inmate's name you can certainly use the services of InmateAid to convey that in the form of photos, greeting cards, magazines, etc.
Subject: Parole & probation
Sounds like going back is unavoidable. Cleary he likes it in there because he keeps violating.
Subject: Sentencing questions
The designation for commitment is determined by the Department of Corrections. They will base the security classification on a number of factors including their criminal history, the type of crime they are convicted of, the value of the crime in dollars, was there any violence, and was anyone injured or any involvement with a gun.
Subject: Prison discipline
We have never heard that before. Some county jails charge a per-day fee for staying in their facility. They charge for medical treatment, too. BUT, they do not have the power to fine an inmate for not doing something. They can be sent to the SHU, also known as the "hole" which is solitary confinement.
