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

The answer depends on two things more than anything else: who he made the threat to and what his prior record looks like. On the charge itself, threatening to physically harm someone typically falls under criminal threatening, menacing, or terroristic threats depending on the state. Most of these charges are misdemeanors at the lower end, particularly for a verbal threat without a weapon, without a specific target in a protected category, and without prior escalation. A first offense misdemeanor threatening charge...

The range here is genuinely wide, and the judge's disposition toward the case matters more than any formula. A dirty urine on felony probation is a technical violation rather than a new criminal charge, and that distinction works in his favor going into the hearing. He did not commit a new crime. He failed a drug test, which is a violation of a supervision condition but a very different situation than catching a new case while on probation. Most judges recognize...

They are two separate lists with two different approval processes, and understanding the difference is useful when you are trying to get on both. The phone list is managed by the inmate and processed through the facility's phone carrier, whether that is Securus, GTL, IC Solutions, or whoever holds the contract at that facility. The inmate submits numbers they want to be able to call, the carrier runs a basic verification, and approved numbers become active for outgoing calls. The process...

GlobalTel*Link, now operating as ConnectNetwork, is the platform you need to set up on your end to receive calls from a facility that uses GTL as their carrier. Here is how the process works. Go to connectnetwork.com and create an account. During setup you will register the phone number where you want to receive calls and add funds to what is called an AdvancePay account. That prepaid balance is what gets drawn down as calls come through. You need money in...

If you are referring to YOU having sex with an inmate, that is not going to happen as there are no prisons that have conjugal visits any longer. BUT, it can happen - I was in a federal camp and there were two or three guys that had some arrangement with the guards that gave them a broom closet to have sex in the middle of visitation. If I didn't see it myself I would have doubted the story. I also...

No bond. That is the standard position on probation violation warrants, and Tarrant County is no exception. When a judge issues a probation violation warrant, they are responding to a situation where someone was already given an alternative to incarceration and did not comply with the conditions of that agreement. The court's position is that bond was effectively already extended in the form of probation, and a violation of that arrangement removes the presumption that the person will appear voluntarily. Most...

Yes, Telmate, which operates through GettingOut.com, is the phone carrier at Winston County Jail in Alabama. Every call your boyfriend makes from that facility runs through their system. If you are paying more than $3.00 for a 15-minute call right now, InmateAid can get that rate down to $3.00 or less. The savings come from the same place they always do with jail phone carriers. Telmate charges different rates depending on the number being dialed, and InmateAid identifies the number that...