Subject: Send inmate money
They know the last name of the sender.
Subject: Inmate phone calls
No, the Sumter County Prison uses Bealls Communication. The calls are $5.45 per 15 minute call. If you are local to Americus Georgia the same call to a local number is only $1.85. If you are not a local call, we can get you an Americus number on a non-contract basis, month-to-month for $19.95. If your inmate calls more than once a week, the savings will pay our fee. If you speak everyday, you will love this service.
If you want to try it,...
Read moreSubject: Arrest record search
Do not go. This is one of the most certain ways to get arrested outside of walking into a police station.
Every visitor to a correctional facility goes through an identity check before they are admitted. That is not optional and it is not cursory. Staff run every visitor's identification through the NCIC, the National Crime Information Center, which is a comprehensive federal database containing criminal records, felonies, outstanding warrants, and records of confinement from jurisdictions across the entire country. There...
Read moreSubject: Inmateaid website questions
Many of the inmate profiles are created by the friends and family members of the offender. The information is not independently verified by InmateAid unless requested. The profiles are created so that the member of the site may communicate and interact with their inmate of choice. Therefore, we suggest that the release date on the NCDPS is the accurate one. We apologize if the date posted here gave you false hope of an earlier release, but that is not the case. We have...
Read moreSubject: Inmate phone calls
It depends on the facility and how their phone approval system works, and the answer matters practically for why the calls may not be coming through.
Some facilities approve the person as a contact rather than the specific phone number, which means a number change on your end does not require a new approval process. In those systems, updating your number on JPay or the carrier's platform is sufficient and calls should come through to the new number without any additional...
Read moreSubject: Inmate transfer
try bop.gov, this is the federal inmate locator
Subject: Prison discipline
Yes, but you would have to do something illegal that helped them in some way. For instance, if you brought in contraband and your inmate received it from you. On their way back to the housing unit, they search and find what you passed. He is going to the SHU, or worse depending on what it was. Was there something you were thinking about that you want a private answer, please ask, we do not judge anyone for anything.
Subject: General prison questions-terminology
They are assessing the risk factors on the type of person they will be housing. The factors that make up the decision are the type of crime the offender was convicted of, the length of the sentence, whether that person is a first-time or multiple time offender, and is there violence in their history. The decision-makers compile all of these considerations and make a recommendation on the security level of the facility they'll be assigned to.
Subject: Prison violence
It is not better or worse than any other prison. Fights happen in all prisons and jails. The inmates that get into fights are the same type personalities that get into fights outside of prison. If your inmate wants to steer clear of fighting, they should learn about the "rules of respect" - not interrupting others, don't butt in line, don't reach over another's plate, don't be a snitch, don't be in other's business, don't listen in on other's conversation,...
Read moreSubject: Commissary
Commissary is usually once a week. Each prison system has their own rules for choice of available items and the weekly/monthly spending limits
