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Subject: Inmateaid website questions

Your letters do not go anywhere when an inmate is released. Everything stored in your InmateAid account stays there until you decide to deactivate the account yourself. Release does not affect what is saved on the platform. If you are not seeing letters that should be in your account, it is most likely a navigation issue rather than missing content. Log back into your account and look for the inbox or received mail section. Letters your inmate sent back

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Subject: Send inmate mail

InmateAid pulls location data from public inmate databases, so if someone is listed at a facility there is a strong basis for that placement being current. That said, inmate databases do not always update in real time, and transfers or releases can create a lag between the actual situation and what the system shows. If you have any reason to believe the location may have changed, confirming directly with the facility or through the relevant DOC's inmate locator is worth

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Subject: Send inmate mail

You have to create an inmate profile on InmateAID and then click on Letters to Inmates and write your letter... or send a photo

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Subject: Relationship issues

We have heard of instances where this has happened, but when you hear about it, the guard has been indicted, arrested or imprisoned themselves. It happens but it's not the smartest idea for them to throw their life away for a quickie.

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Subject: Re-entry & rehabilitation

Drug rehabilitation programs inside correctional facilities vary in structure and intensity depending on the facility, but most follow a similar general framework. The most common format is a residential program where participants are housed together in a dedicated unit separate from the general population. This separation is intentional. It removes participants from the day to day dynamics of the regular prison environment and creates a structured therapeutic community focused entirely on recovery. The unit operates on its own schedule

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Subject: Law & court questions - legal terms

Only if the charges are capital crimes and of a high profile nature. Trying children as adults is rare, but you know from the news that it has happened on occasion, in murder cases especially.

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Subject: General prison questions-terminology

If that inmate has the password for another inmate's account they can... they are not supposed to, but what the heck, they are in prison anyway 

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Subject: Send inmate mail

Yes, and they do! 

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Subject: Visitation

Depends on where and what custody level the inmate is in. The higher the custody level the most strict the visitation

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Subject: Money transfer

The range runs from getting by on very little to living as comfortably as the environment allows, and where your friend lands on that spectrum depends on what you are able to contribute without affecting your own finances. At Florida Women's Reception Center or any Florida DOC facility, inmates can spend up to about $300 per month through commissary. That is the high end and at that level your friend would be eating well by prison standards, keeping fully

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