Subject: Pending criminal charges
The charges are public record and accessible through the Clerk of the Court in the county where he was arrested. That office maintains all case filings including charging documents, and you can contact them by phone or in person to ask what is on the docket under his name. In many jurisdictions the court's website also has an online case search function where you can find basic case information by name or case number at no cost.
If you want a...
Read moreSubject: Arrest record search
The timing is the issue. When someone is first booked, the information does not flow instantly to every database. VINELink, state DOC websites, and county jail rosters all update on different schedules, and fresh arrests can take anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days to propagate fully across all systems. Finding her on VINELink is a good sign that the booking is in process, but the facility's own public roster may simply not have caught up yet.
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Read moreSubject: Work release
Your son will need to have a meeting with his counselor to go over the sentencing calculation. This is something only he can take care of. There is an inmate handbook he received at Orientation where it lays out the specific rules and requirements to apply for work release. Unfortunately, there is very little we on the outside can do when it comes to administrative issues inside the prison or jail.
Subject: Sentencing questions
You would need to call the Clerk of the Court in the jurisdiction where he was charged and convicted. When calling, ask for the Judgment and Commitment Order. This would be the document that catalogued the fine and/or punishment that the judge signed into the record. They might not give you the information over the phone so you'd then have to order the printing and mailing of the document (for a nominal handling fee) to your home.
Subject: Relationship issues
No. An inmate's call list, visitation list, and trust fund account are all private and that information is not available to you regardless of your relationship to them.
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The fact that you are asking this question means something is already telling you that something is off. Trust that instinct, because it is rarely wrong. Inmates have access to more people than most of their partners on the outside realize, through letters, pen...
Read moreSubject: Inmate transfer
The Federal Transfer Center (FTC) in Oklahoma City is located directly on the tarmac of Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This facility is primarily designed to house holdover inmates in transit to other facilities. The mission of the FTC is to confine, on a short-term basis, inmates who are being transported through the U.S. Marshal Service, Immigration & Customs Enforcement, U.S. Parole Commission, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons transportation system. Security of the offender is maintained in...
Read moreSubject: Inmate transfer
The Fulton Reception and Diagnostic Center (FRCD) is the first stop for newly incarcerated inmates confined in the Missouri Department of corrections. Depending on the assessment of the offender, they will be classified based on the age, crime convicted of, length of sentence and risk of flight. This classification will place them in a security category that aligns with the type of prison (maximum, medium, low or minimum security) they will do the balance of their sentence.
During the first two weeks...
Read moreSubject: Inmate phone calls
Each inmate has a billing cycle for their phone use. It begins on the date of their internal approval to use the Trulincs system. It can be any date of the month and the renewal is on that same date the following month. If your inmate's date is on the 15th, then on November 15th, they will get 400 minutes to span until December 15th when they would recharge for another 400 minutes.
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Read moreSubject: Education & vocational training
This depends on where they are being held. Most long term facilities have many options for vocational and educational improvement. It could always be better, our advise is to get your inmate involved in all the programming the facility offers and if able, enroll them in college courses offered by legitimate universities under the "distance learning" programs.
Subject: Medical treatment
This depends on where they are incarcerated. The federal system is by far the best for medical attention and the state system is adequate... but the rule of thumb is to "not get sick", unfortunately that is easier said than done but it is minimal attention at best. Most facilities will charge the inmate some sort of fee for medical attention that is taken from the inmate's commissary account. If they are indigent, then the state or feds will pick...
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