Subject: Inmate phone calls
YES WE CAN. If you would like to get an honest assessment, let us know the name of the facility and your telephone number before you sign up.
InmateAid is NOT a replacement for the phone service at the prison or jail, we make their service cheaper with local phone numbers. Sometimes our service can save you as much as $12.00 per phone call, other times it will not save anything.
Here is how the industry works: The phone service at...
Read moreSubject: Inmate phone calls
Send us your telephone number and the facility where he is incarcerated - we will give you an honest estimate before you sign-up
Subject: Medical treatment
Hormone treatment is often denied during incarceration. There was a landmark federal lawsuit where the Department of Justice has intervened on Georgia trans woman's behalf, declaring state prison's continued denial of her hormone therapy a violation of her Eighth Amendment rights.
Subject: Send inmate mail
You can send any kind of pictures EXCEPT, nudity - drugs, alcohol or gang related material like specific type tattoos. Women like sending sexy pictures, anything will work as long as you are wearing something (like in a bikini or lingerie) but your private parts must be covered.
Subject: Marriage in prison
Yes, several penal facilities allow inmates to marry. You would first speak with the chaplain at the prison. The majority of chaplains don't believe prisoners should be allowed to marry. They feel as long as someone is incarcerated and not contributing to society, it goes along as part of the punishment. They don't deserve to be married while in prison because it's a privilege."
That privilege extends to spending time alone with a new wife, something that doesn't happen after most...
Read moreSubject: Bail & bond questions
If a lieutenant offered to send your inmate home with a GPS monitoring device, then take it. We have no idea how the other warrants would affect this offer. If all the information that you've stated in your is correct, we cannot see how they would allow him to leave when there is a no bond hold and outstanding warrants.
We know that typically, when there are outstanding charges from another jurisdiction, they place a "detainer" on the inmate and do...
Read moreSubject: Medical treatment
Inmates can get medical attention by filling out a "cop-out" and submitting it to their counselor. There are no incidents of inmates actually being denied medical treatment. Inmates with flu-like symptoms are encouraged to purchase over-the-counter remedies at the commissary. Some inmates use medical treatment to as a vehicle to be treated differently or to get atttention. We are not saying this is the case here, but there are instances where the inmate complains to their family, only to discover...
Read moreSubject: General prison questions-terminology
We do not make that public access information.
Subject: Commissary
Depending on where your inmate is incarcerated, they will have a weekly or monthly spending limit. Most county jails have a $50-75 per week limit. Federal has a $340 per month spending limit. There are also the cost of the phone calls to be considered. You should budget according to your own needs first and then the inmate's. Some people on the outside worry about their inmate so much on the inside that they send them more money than they...
Read moreSubject: Money transfer
If you funded the account online, it should only take a couple of hours. If you sent it by [money](https://www.inmateaid.com/shop/send-money) order then it could take 7-10 days


