Subject: Visitation
It's not fair, but prison is not there for fairness, it is there for the housing of inmates until their sentence is served under rules that we on the outside can't imagine. Visitation is considered a privilege, not a right - and when they take it away it is usually for some sort of egregious act from a group of inmates. The rules that are imposed are not to punish the visitors, they are there to keep the order and control the acts...
Read moreSubject: Inmate transfer
Inmate transfers are not publicized for security reasons. You will have to wait until his new designation is published on the BOP website. Once he has landed at his new location he will be able to resume contact with you.
Subject: Send inmate mail
Absolutely! We have many international members that use the letter and photo service to communicate with their inmate. The service is faster, more reliable, convenient and a lot less money than international mail. What's more, your inmate can write you back through the InmateAid Response Mail service - your inmates writes you through our address, we scan their letter into your account and notify you that it's there for your review.
Subject: Sex offenders
Child sex offenders sit at the absolute bottom of the prison social hierarchy and have for as long as anyone who has done time can remember. The term used inside is cho-mo and it is not a neutral label. Inmates convicted of offenses against children are considered to have violated something so fundamental that the normal codes of conduct that govern conflict inside do not apply to them the way they do to everyone else.
The reason this particular offense generates...
Read moreSubject: Send inmate mail
Yes. Maximum security designation refers to the custody level of the facility or the inmate's classification within it, not a restriction on mail access. Inmates in maximum security facilities retain the right to send and receive mail, and that right is protected under the First Amendment regardless of the severity of the crime they were convicted of or are being held for.
What changes at maximum security is the scrutiny applied to incoming mail rather than access to it. Every piece...
Read moreSubject: Money transfer
Money sent through Western Union is normally posted within a couple of hours. Depending on the system at the prison/jail, inmates may access their account on the telephone or their counselor hands them a receipt of deposit with the amount and the sender.
Subject: Inmate search
Title: Can You Email David Sweat Through InmateAid? (44 chars)
Snippet Answer: (47 words / 284 chars) Yes. The InmateAid profile for David Sweat is correct and current. He is incarcerated at NY DOC Mid State Correctional Facility in Marcy, New York. If the release date on the record caused confusion, disregard it. All InmateAid services for this inmate are active and properly synced.
Expanded Answer: David Sweat became one of the most widely covered escape cases in recent American correctional history...
Read moreSubject: Inmate phone calls
When Securus is the company with the contract for all inmate outbound calling and to tape record the calls, you have to look carefully at the per-call price because they are doing things differently than the other prison phone carriers.. Securus has a rate calculator on their site and we use it to get you the BEST number for inmate calling - and now the local number isn't always your best option. Regardless, you have to use them to receive calls.
The choice...
Read moreSubject: Commissary
That is not a good sign. The fire camp is a good detail for inmates as they get to be outside and do a normal-type job. Getting transferred to the Centinela State Prison, where they provide for the confinement of General Population, Level I, Level III inmates, Level III sensitive needs and maximum security (Level IV) inmates would tell us that he might have lost his custody level due to some violation of rules.
Subject: Inmate phone calls
Inmates cannot accept incoming calls, they have to initiate the call. Local calls are the cheapest - long distance and collect calls can run $15 for 15 minutes, people use InmateAid's Discount Phone Service to get local numbers making the calls from the jail at the cheapest rate.
