Subject: Medical treatment
Prison gets a bad reputation across the board, and some of it is deserved. But the reality is more nuanced than either the horror stories or the official line suggest.
The best way to think about prison care is this: it is the minimum required by law, delivered consistently, without much warmth but without deliberate neglect either. The government funds it, which means it is adequate by a baseline standard and not much more. Nobody inside is going to confuse it...
Read moreSubject: Inmateaid website questions
Yes, absolutely.
Subject: Arrest record search
No, there is no cost to the inmate - the member/user of the site pays the fees for letters sent in both directions there is a letter retrieval cost ($1.49) - the phone service also takes pre-paid and debit cards, too
Subject: Education & vocational training
Yes they do. As you can imagine, the best classes are the ones that you show willingness and openmindedness to learn from them. The challenge is getting your loved one to accept that they need to have feedback. Once they agree that it's goiong to benefit them, they will gain a lot of knowledge and it will make them better parents when they get out. It is important to try and let them come to the conclusion that they need...
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https://www.inmateaid.com/inmate-profile-search
Enter their name and see if we have it in our database of 1.7 million active inmates. If you cannot find them there, email us at aid@inmateaid.com with their name, state, dob if known and what jurisdiction charged and sentenced them (Federal - FBI, DEA, ATF, HS or State where prosecuted).
Subject: General prison questions-terminology
The jail is rated for 630 inmates/detainees and employs a staff of approximately 120. The local population averages 275-325 inmates/detainees. We do not have a current population number to report.
Subject: Release questions
If you mean "good time" credits against the release date, the answer is "Absolutely". All inmates are afforded 15% good time at the beginning of their bid. Only bad behavior and/or incident reports can take that away.
Subject: Send inmate mail
InmateAid will redirect it if it comes back for ANY reason. The facilities do not always forward mail (lazy), they stamp it "return, inmate no longer here". We just fix the inmate's profile and remail it, no charge. If you know of something like this is going to happen, let us know and we'll fix it now and send it again before it comes back to us.
Subject: Prison food
Yes absolutely. The prisons and jails have licensed nutricians on staff that set the daily menu and are responsible for the make-up of the food-stuffs and calories that are provided to the detainees
Subject: Inmate phone calls
Depends on the three-way...:) if we are tlking about a 3-way call, then my advice would be to NEVER attempt it. The phone companies provide the prisons with the latest detection technology that sniffs out three-way calling. It is 100% against the rules of all institutions and loss of phone privilege for six months or more is the penalty. The people that get away with it do so for only a few calls before getting caught.
With InmateAid's Discount Calling Service, we...
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