Subject: Prison discipline
The Secure Housing Unit (SHU) is segregated housing and it is used for disciplinary or administrative reasons. When an inmate is in PC or Protective Custody for their own safety, this is where they go to be secure from danger. Unfortunately it’s a miserable existence.
Subject: Send inmate mail
You can write him through InmateAid, the letters will get there in one day as we are headquartered in Palm Beach County Florida only one county away from Broward County where he is locked up. You can send him magazines or books - with his situation, he is completely walled off from contact with other inmates. I've been in soitary and it is no joke. Reading was my only escape. There are other enlightenment opportunites down the road through college correspondence courses, but that...
Read moreSubject: Release questions
If you do not pick up your boyfriend's belongings within the 30-day window, they will most likely be boxed up and placed in storage at the facility rather than discarded or donated immediately.
Correctional facilities keep inmate property in storage for a reasonable period because they understand that circumstances sometimes prevent timely pickup and because the property belongs to the inmate who will eventually need it. The storage arrangement is not indefinite and facilities do prefer that family members collect belongings...
Read moreSubject: Send books and magazines
Malcolm Galdwell books, "Tipping Point", "Outliers" and "Blink" are recommended for business philosopy-type reading. For fiction reading, i like the authors Stuart Woods, Vince Flynn, Harlen Coben, Lee Child, John Grisham, Daniel Silva, Michael Lewis and Sandra Brown. There are tons of titles for these authors. The prison/jail rules require buying paperback books from the publisher like Amazon, don't try and send them yourself,they will definitely get returned.
Subject: Sentencing questions
The Clerk of the Court in the county where his case was tried is your best starting point and the information is public record.
Call the clerk's office directly and ask about the case by your boyfriend's full name and date of birth. They maintain all case records including charging documents, plea agreements, trial transcripts, and sentencing orders. Most clerk's offices can tell you over the phone what sentence was imposed, and many county court systems also have online case search...
Read moreSubject: Release questions
The six months he served in county from August 2017 counts toward the 30-month sentence and should be credited against the total. That credit does not disappear because he was in county rather than a state or federal facility. Every day in custody from the date of arrest applies.
Here is the math. A 30-month sentence at 85% works out to 25.5 months. Subtract the six months already served in county and he has about 19.5 months remaining from the point...
Read moreSubject: Inmate transfer
What you are describing is a contract prison arrangement, which is more common than most people realize. California and Arizona both periodically house state inmates in out-of-state facilities, including private contract prisons in Mississippi, when their own facilities are overcrowded or when population management requires it.
There are several reasons an inmate in that situation would be moved back to their home state.
Overcrowding relief works in both directions. If the home state facility has created space or if the contract arrangement...
Read moreSubject: Visitation
No, in-person visits only. Please go to https://www.inmateaid.com/visitation/rankin-county-ms-jail for the exact times and days.
Subject: Prison discipline
Being moved back to prison from a transitional center this close to a release date almost always means something happened that violated the conditions of the placement.
Transitional centers and residential reentry facilities operate under strict rules specifically because the people there are in the final stage before full release. The conditions are more relaxed than prison but the expectations are non-negotiable. A violation of those conditions, whether a failed drug test, missing a curfew, unauthorized contact with someone prohibited by...
Read moreSubject: Relationship issues
No. The inmates are entitled to privacy in prison too. If you think he is calling someone, you know him better than anyone, he probably is.


