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Subject: Survive prison

Calhoun Correctional Institution is a medium-security prison and is not considered a "camp". The prisons in the Florida Department of Corrections are no picnic. Medium security means restricted movement and it's a state prison which is not the best place to do your time.

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Subject: Inmate search

this is not enough info to help you. there are literally thousands of inmates with the last name "Lopez", first name "M"... and you also need to narrow down to the state they caught their charges in. Try vinelink.com to search around.

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Subject: Survive prison

Yes, you must relinquish your grillz, your hair extensions, toupees... anything not attached to your person must be removed before you are designated to a permanent housing location.

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Subject: Relationship issues

Questions about who else is supporting someone on the inside are natural, especially when you are one of the people investing time, emotion, and money into helping them through their sentence. Incarceration strains every relationship surrounding it, including marriages. Some spouses show up fully and consistently. Others disappear. Many fall somewhere in between, present in some ways and absent in others. There is no single pattern, and what an inmate tells you about their marriage may or may not

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Subject: Inmate phone calls

Yes, but they cannot make one call after another. The is a bank of phones that are for use by all of the inmates. Inmates might have to wait 30 minutes or more to get a phone to use. After their call, the system will not allow for another call for 30 minutes or more (giving others the opportunity to make calls).

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Subject: Website function questions

The inmate uses the InmateAid postal address to send their correspondence. We scan their letters to you into your Account Dashboard. You are sent an email notification with a link to retrieve the letter. There is a charge of $1.59 to the recipient to unlock the letter.

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Subject: Sentencing questions

He will do 85% of the 60 months (51 months). Every hour spent in confinement will go towards fulfilling this commitment order no matter the facility he's held in. 

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Subject: General prison questions-terminology

In most fundamental ways, prisons are prisons. The basics, the counts, the routine, the boredom, the commissary, the mail system, do not vary dramatically from one facility to the next. The walls are different but the daily rhythm is roughly the same wherever you are. What does vary is who is running the place. Otero is a privately operated facility, and privately managed prisons tend to run tighter than state-operated facilities in some respects. The staff at private prisons

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Subject: Marriage in prison

Months and months if the petition is not contested. If it is contested, it'll take a long time

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Subject: Inmate transfer

No one will entertain your request. They do not take suggestions from the outside, or from lawyers for a matter like this.

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