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Subject: Prison discipline

Not likely, unless you said something that would have triggered a response like that. He could lose phone privileges for a number of other reasons, but not this.

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Subject: Relationship issues

Yes I did. I had a 96 month sentence and lost my wife at 19 months into the bid. Most women are not ride or die, not that I would expect them to wait because this crime was my doing, not hers. It killed me for a few months but I realized that life was not over and that I would get out someday. I worked on myself, my mind and when I was released I won her back :)

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Subject: Visitation

Video visitation has become increasingly common in correctional facilities over the past decade, driven largely by private companies that secure exclusive contracts with individual jails and prisons to provide the service. Whether it is available to your inmate depends entirely on whether the specific facility has signed one of those contracts. County jails have been among the earliest and most aggressive adopters of video visitation, in part because the technology allows facilities to reduce the staffing and security costs

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Subject: Prison discipline

The most likely explanation is that your son is in the SHU, the Special Housing Unit, which is the federal Bureau of Prisons term for disciplinary or administrative segregation. When an inmate is placed in the SHU, privileges are significantly restricted across the board. Phone access is typically suspended or severely limited, often reduced to one fifteen-minute call per week. Commissary is restricted. Movement is essentially nonexistent. The fact that video visits are still available while phone calls are

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Subject: Survive prison

Serving time sucks. It's boring and you are cut off from the world you knew before going in. For me, it felt like i had died but i'm stuck watching my family and friends live on without me. The first year seemed like forever. But, as you point out, the place becomes a home and you adapt to your surroundings. The worst time is when there is something happening outside that you can't attend. For me I missed my mother's

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Subject: Inmate search

What state are they and what is their name, we will help you find them?

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Subject: Inmate search

Clerk of the Courts is where the lawyers go to get that information

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Subject: Sentencing questions

We don't know the charges in the second case, but prior criminal history is a major factor in the determination of sentencing. The value of the crime is the other major element along with gun enhancements or violence will contribute. If you feel comfortable laying out the case, we will give you our opinion. Whatever it is, it in not a good situation, my friend.

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Subject: Inmate search

try calling the facility. the people working there are just normal people doing their job. if you are nice and respectful they will tell you whatever information they are allowed to.

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Subject: Inmateaid website questions

yes, absolutely

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