As you may or may not be aware, we are not a money transfer company. We have a simple solution that we offer for our international members. We will arrange to deposit any amount in an inmate account - you decide the method.    We charge a service fee on top of whatever service charge Western Union charges plus the credit card merchant fee. The fees are steep but there are limited places to get money transferred from abroad. You email us what you want to send,...

No. Electronic devices cannot be sent into any correctional facility from outside. It does not matter what type of device it is or how it is packaged. Anything electronic coming from an outside source will be rejected at the mailroom or confiscated. What many facilities do allow is for inmates to purchase approved electronics through the commissary. Depending on the facility, this might include simple MP3 players, radios, or other approved audio devices that have been vetted by the institution. The...

Sixty days from November 1 puts him at December 31. New Year's Eve. Start planning now. Sixty days moves faster than it feels like it will, and having things in place before he walks out makes a real difference. Housing, a form of ID, a little money, and a plan for the first few days are the basics that matter most. California will give him some gate money and a bus ticket, but the rest is on you both to prepare. December...

A ten year do five sentence means the judge has already determined that five years is the minimum time that must be served before parole eligibility kicks in. With a transfer date of January 21, 2016, that puts his earliest possible parole consideration around January 2021 under a strict reading of the sentence, not May 2017. That said, the actual timing of a parole hearing is not set by a formula alone. The Department of Corrections, facility supervisors, and the Parole...

VineLink is useful for tracking an inmate's location and custody status, but it does not display charges. For that you need to go directly to the source. The Clerk of the Court in the jurisdiction where the charges were filed is where all case information lives. In Fayette County that means the Fayette County District Clerk's office in La Grange. They maintain the complete case file including charging documents, court filings, trial transcripts, and any other official records associated with the...

The short answer is a qualified maybe (and that is a long shot). When a defendent accepts a plea, part of the agreement they sign is they are "waiving their right to an appeal". So on it's face, there can be no appeal - which is the only way to get the sentence changed. When the plea is presented, the prosecutor's offer is not always accepted by the judge. If you take a plea, you are at the mercy of the...

RDAP stands for the Residential Drug Abuse Program. It is a federal Bureau of Prisons program, meaning it exists specifically within the federal prison system and is not available at state facilities under that name or with those exact benefits. For federal inmates, RDAP is one of the most valuable programs available. Completing it can take up to 12 months off a sentence and guarantees six months of halfway house placement on the back end. That combination makes a significant difference...