Subject: Survive prison
County jail is probably the most boring of the venues to do one's time. The days begins with a wake up, lights one routine. Inmates will then be brought breakfast. After breakfast there is a clean-up period where the inmates will make their bed and mop their cells. There are a couple of inmates that clean the general area. After the morning chores are completed, there is a period of time where inmates are all in one area of the...
Read moreSubject: Law & court questions - legal terms
That sounds very open-ended. Material witness holds are indefinite. He does not have to "know" the defendants in the case, if he saw something, they are keeping him for testimony as to what he saw, where he saw it and when. The troubling aspect of your question is the immigration issue which sounds like he might be deported upon release.
Subject: Send inmate mail
All inmates are allowed to receive mail. More importantly inmates are allowed to write you.
Mail is considered sacred in a prison, detention center or jail. There is even a program for indigent inmates at every facility where they supply paper, pencil, envelopes and stamps. Whether the inmate has money on their books or not, there is no reason why an inmate cannot keep in touch if they want.
Subject: Inmateaid website questions
We hear this one a lot and the honest answer is volume. Thousands of questions come through Ask The Inmate and the queue moves based on uniqueness and priority rather than the strict order of submission.
Questions that cover ground already addressed in the public archive get deprioritized because the answer is already out there and searchable. Before waiting on a response it is worth browsing the existing Q&A archive to see if your question or something very close to it...
Read moreSubject: Marriage in prison
Not all jails allow inmates to get married, but many state and federal prisons do allow it. You should call the facility chaplain to see what the policy is for marriage.
Subject: Inmate phone calls
Our service gets the local line for the facility where your inmate is incarcerated and forwards the call to your current number. Nothing will change on your end. You give your inmate the local number, he places it on the Trulincs system and calls directly to that line - it will ring on the phone number you provide us, completely seamless.
Subject: Survive prison
There is NO jail, or prison, or detention center that has "co-ed" housing. Female inmates are segregated from male inmates, always. Inmates are allowed out of their cells for most of the day in the general population of the pod they are housed in (unless there is a group punishment). Inmates are in their cells for "count time" and sleep.
Subject: Money transfer
If it was sent through an approved online vendor, the exchange of funds to the inmate is instantaneous.
Subject: Prison discipline
The infirmary is primarily for medical and mental health care, but inmates can pass through there for other reasons depending on the situation.
If your friend was sent to the infirmary, the most common reasons are:
Medical treatment or evaluation
Mental health observation
Intake screening if there was a concern about their condition
That said, it is possible he stopped at the infirmary briefly on the way to another housing area, especially if staff needed to clear him medically.
Regarding the issue with having cash, that...
Read moreSubject: Marriage in prison
It's not a law, it's a privilege that is offered to inmates with more than a year on their sentence with approval from the warden.
