Subject: Send inmate mail
There is no limit to the number of letters an inmate may write or receive. Inmate mail is considered sacred by the prison system. It is highly promoted and even allows indigent inmates unlimited letter writing resources.
Subject: Money transfer
We would NOT advise you send cash into a facility mail room, Our guess is that he will never see it.
Subject: Relationship issues
We are former inmates answering these questions. We are not the inmate that you are "speaking to". If you would like to communicate with your inmate like this, click on Letters and Photos and send a sexy picture of yourself and then ask...
Subject: Release questions
There are very few places where it is posted (except maybe in federal). What do you know? Do you know where he is incarcerated. Do you know for how long? Normally the release date is 85% of the imposed sentence.
Subject: Relationship issues
It is not the easiest thing for an inmate to do unless their spouse files on the outside first. Your inmate would need a lawyer to handle the court filings. For the inmate to do this, he would need to be able to pay for the legal service of filing since he cannot do it for himself. The institution will NOT do this for him, they do not look at this issue seriously.
Subject: Release questions
No. When someone is revoked back to custody for a parole violation, the system makes clear that this is the consequence for breaking the conditions they were given. The release date they hand down is the date. Good behavior is expected at that point, not rewarded with early release on top of the revocation.
Parole violations are taken seriously precisely because the person already had the benefit of being out. Going back in for it is a direct consequence of not...
Read moreSubject: Money transfer
In most cases, he will not be notified automatically. Phone and commissary deposits do not come with an alert that reaches the inmate directly. The money appears in his account, but unless he checks it himself at a kiosk or asks a staff member, he may not know it is there until he tries to make a call.
The most reliable way to let him know is to send him a letter. Write a short note telling him you have added...
Read moreSubject: Sentencing questions
Yes. Sentencing status has no bearing on whether InmateAid can reach him. Whether someone is pre-trial, awaiting sentencing, already sentenced, or mid-transfer, the letter service works the same way. InmateAid routes mail through the US Postal Service to wherever he is currently held, and pretrial and pre-sentence detainees in county and detention facilities receive mail the same way sentenced inmates do.
Send the letter, include his name and inmate ID number in the addressing details, and it will go out. Mail...
Read moreSubject: Send inmate mail
Inmates do not have access to the Internet, there are some places that do have an email system. All inmates have access to writing materials and stamps (even if they have no money on their books). Your inmate will have to be the one to tell you that they received something from you.
Subject: Send inmate mail
Yes, there is a cost in both directions, and it is worth understanding what you are actually paying for before deciding whether it makes sense for you.
First, these are not emails. InmateAid uses the US Postal Service. When you send a letter, it is physically printed and mailed to the facility. When your inmate writes back, they address the reply to InmateAid's office in South Florida, where it is received, scanned, and posted to your account dashboard. You pay a...
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