Yes I did. I had a 96 month sentence and lost my wife at 19 months into the bid. Most women are not ride or die, not that I would expect them to wait because this crime was my doing, not hers. It killed me for a few months but I realized that life was not over and that I would get out someday. I worked on myself, my mind and when I was released I won her back :) ...

Video visitation has become increasingly common in correctional facilities over the past decade, driven largely by private companies that secure exclusive contracts with individual jails and prisons to provide the service. Whether it is available to your inmate depends entirely on whether the specific facility has signed one of those contracts. County jails have been among the earliest and most aggressive adopters of video visitation, in part because the technology allows facilities to reduce the staffing and security costs associated with...

The most likely explanation is that your son is in the SHU, the Special Housing Unit, which is the federal Bureau of Prisons term for disciplinary or administrative segregation. When an inmate is placed in the SHU, privileges are significantly restricted across the board. Phone access is typically suspended or severely limited, often reduced to one fifteen-minute call per week. Commissary is restricted. Movement is essentially nonexistent. The fact that video visits are still available while phone calls are not is...

Serving time sucks. It's boring and you are cut off from the world you knew before going in. For me, it felt like i had died but i'm stuck watching my family and friends live on without me. The first year seemed like forever. But, as you point out, the place becomes a home and you adapt to your surroundings. The worst time is when there is something happening outside that you can't attend. For me I missed my mother's...