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Read moreFirst and foremost, know that there is only one option for a phone provider at ALL the facilities in the US. The one that has the contract, sets the rates and terms... essentially a monopoly at the prison. We are not replacing them, we are using their pricing to find the best possible phone number to make the calls the cheapest possible price. If we can save you money, we will get the line, if not we refund the money... immediately.
Read moreYou can send the USA Today newspaper into the Florida DOC facilities
Read moreAs a general rule, juvenile facilities only allow visitation from the immediate family. It has nothing to do with your age, it's limited to mother, father, sister, brother and grandparents only.
Read moreA standard traffic ticket and an unpaid fine on their own will not prevent you from being approved for visitation at a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation facility. Those are minor infractions that do not show up as disqualifying factors in a background check for visitation purposes. The only scenario where this becomes a problem is if an unpaid fine led to a missed court date and a bench warrant was issued. That is the question worth sitting
Read moreFirst, congratulations for being there at the finish line. Ten years is a long stretch for everyone on both sides of those walls, and the fact that you rode it out says something real about who you are. Now for the honest version of what comes next, because you deserve that more than you deserve reassurances. The technology gap alone is jarring in ways that are hard to fully anticipate. Smartphones, apps, contactless payments, streaming services, the way
Read moreOMG YES! If you could see the inmate's faces at mail call, you would know how vitally import getting something. Not to be a commercial, but that is what InmateAid is all about. The services on the site are the ONLY things we can do for our loved ones stuck inside. Letters with great quality photos, postcards where you can upload any picture to the other side of your message, greeting cards for every holiday and meaning, magazine subscriptions -
Read moreThis is one of the most common questions families and partners ask, and it deserves an honest answer rather than a reassuring one. People do change in prison. It happens. The combination of time, consequences, reflection, and distance from the circumstances that led to incarceration genuinely transforms some people. Those stories are real. But the honest reality is that incarceration also produces a very particular kind of emotional intensity that does not always survive contact with the outside
Read moreIt is possible but not the most likely outcome, and the specifics of why he is on probation matter more than the probation status itself. When an inmate is approved for home placement, the supervising agency does not simply rubber-stamp any address submitted. They review the proposed residence and the people living there as part of determining whether the placement is appropriate. A household member on probation is a flag that gets attention, not an automatic disqualifier. What
Read morePeople who go to jail a lot seem to be on the move quite often. It has nothing to do with caring, its about survival in many cases. If you have moved on, it's probably for the best.
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