Ask The Inmate. Real answers from people who've been there.

This happens more often than you would think, and it is usually a simple fix. Most inmate phone systems have a feature where pressing a certain key during an incoming call, often a number on the keypad, triggers an automatic block on that number. It is easy to do accidentally, especially if you are fumbling with the phone or hit a button while trying to answer. The good news is it is not permanent. Call the facility directly and ask to speak...

Good news. The service works the same way for state prison as it does for county jail. Here is how it works. Every facility uses a phone carrier, and that carrier sets rates based on the phone number being called. Those rates vary depending on the number's area code, carrier, and location. InmateAid's system runs your number through an algorithm that checks the carrier's own rate calculator and determines whether a different forwarding number can connect you to your inmate at...

Hay más de 18.000 prisiones y cárceles y alrededor de 25 compañías telefónicas independientes que contratan instalaciones individuales. En casi todos los casos, existe una amplia variación de precios según su ubicación. En la prisión federal, las tarifas son de seis centavos por minuto para un número local, 21 centavos por minuto para una llamada de larga distancia. Cualquier número local ayudará a un preso federal a ahorrar dinero. Emitimos la línea local, se la dan al interno que tiene que...

There is no set timeline, and that is the frustrating reality of transfers within the county and state system. Once a sentence is handed down and a placement is determined, the facility needs two things to move him: an available bed at the receiving location and a transport arrangement. Both of those depend on factors outside anyone's direct control. If the detention center has open beds and a transport run scheduled soon, it could happen within days. If beds are tight...

The short answer is they can hold him until the end of whatever sentence was originally imposed, and in some cases that is exactly what happens. Probation violations go back to the judge who handed down the original sentence, and that is where things get complicated. That judge already showed leniency once by putting your son on probation instead of sending him to prison or jail. When a violation brings someone back into the courtroom, the judge's goodwill from the first...

It happens constantly, and it is one of the more predictable problems in county jail environments. Drugs inside jails and prisons are far more available than most people on the outside imagine. The demand is there because addiction does not stop at the facility door. People who were using heavily before they came in are still dealing with that dependency inside, and where there is demand, someone will try to meet it. Smuggling attempts come through visits, mail, staff, and people...

Quarantine is one of the harder stretches an inmate can go through, and the communication blackout on your end is genuinely stressful when nobody will tell you anything. Here is what the inside of a quarantine period actually looks like. Inmates are locked down 24 hours a day with very limited exceptions. Three hours of rec yard time per week and three showers per week are the standard allowances. Outside of those windows, they are in the cell. Phone access during quarantine...

The length of time in segregation depends almost entirely on how the incident was written up and by whom. Seven days in already puts him past the short end of what these things typically run. If the officer on the receiving end of his outburst filed a straightforward report without escalating it, another week is a reasonable estimate. That puts him in the two-week range total, which is fairly standard for a verbal incident without any physical component. Where it gets longer...

I'll assume you mean how much actual time would be served on a particular sentence... it starts with "good time credits" that are applied to the sentence calculator a the beginning of the sentence. An inmate can only lose that good time by having behavior issues or breaking numerous rules. In federal you get 15%, state prison ranges from 15-30% good time. The difference with the state is that they're also dealing with a parole system too that can release an offender...