Subject: Release questions
Call the facility and ask to speak to a counselor. Or, ask YOUR inmate, they definitely know their out date
Subject: Relationship issues
There is not much you can do except "ride or die". You have to keep yourself busy. You can stay comnnected through phone calls, letters, send sexy pictures, visit as often as you can. We hope his sentence isn't too long and that you guys can reunite soon
Subject: Inmate search
There are three ways to search on InmateAid. One is locator of the jail you think they might be in (try the county where they were last).
Our locator has over one million inmates but they are entered by members of the site. If no one set up a profile for your guy, then that database would not have his record. You can create his profile once you find him and use our services to stay connected.
The third way is to...
Read moreSubject: Inmate phone calls
You can try, but it seldom works. Correctional staff are not permitted to relay personal messages to inmates as a matter of facility policy. The rules exist for good reason: if staff started passing along phone messages from family members, the volume of requests would be unmanageable and the system would break down quickly. It is not that individual staff members do not want to help. It is that the rules prohibit it.
The most reliable way to get a message...
Read moreSubject: Survive prison
This a small facility in the heat of Louisiana. There is nothing to like about jail, it's confinement with limited privileges. There is no air conditioning but the medical staff is compassionate and willing to help. Just have you inmate ask to see the nurse.
Subject: Prison discipline
There is no way to know for sure. He will be allowed to write you, so ask him why he's there and for how long. I was in the SHU for one day, every minute felt like it was an hour - it is hell. I had my DHO hearing and was luckily released back into gen pop. There was another guy in there for eight months for having a cell phone. Rumor was he got a year in solitary and then...
Read moreSubject: Send inmate mail
If you let us know the new location, we will resend them for you at no charge at any time.
Subject: Prison discipline
It means that they have lost some of their privileges for disciplinary reasons or general population inmates who refuse to accept or perform in a work/training assignment. There is a negative stigma associated to inmates in "C" Status.
Lost privileges may include: no visitation, limited if any commissary, emergency only phone calls, no recreation, no entertainment, no personal property packages
Subject: Medical treatment
Contact lens or glasses are permitted in federal prison. He can buy reading glasses and "artificial tears" which would act as the solution for the contacts, at the commissary if you go that route. If you know his approximate size just guess and get something that is durable and scratch proof.
Subject: Halfway house
If he is approved for home confinement at that address, and he has a job, then he can eventually be released from the halfway house. The time he spends there depends on his compliance with the rules and clean drug and alcohol tests,
