The confusion around transfer information is extremely common in the federal system, and the other inmate telling your brother he was being messed with may or may not be right depending on the source of the original information. In the Bureau of Prisons, designation decisions are made by the Designation and Sentence Computation Center in Grand Prairie, Texas. That information is then passed to the inmate's unit team, which includes the case manager, counselor, and unit team manager. These are the...

There are phones available most times of the day and early evening. Inmates may call through several programs that vary in price from $1.30 to $18.00 per 15 minutes. If they are calling you long distance, the calls are the most expensive. If they are calling you on a local number, the calls are the cheapest. If you are long distance, InmateAid can get you a local line that will ring on any phone number you give us and cut...

The 50% figure you mentioned is not consistent with how CDCR generally calculates time served. The standard for most California state inmates is 85% of the imposed sentence, with the remaining 15% accounted for through good time and work time credits earned during incarceration. Maintaining a clean disciplinary record is the primary way an inmate protects those credits and avoids having time added back onto the sentence. For a five year sentence beginning July 2013, a January 2016 release date reflects...

Whether a visit takes place in an open contact setting or through a glass partition with a phone is not a facility-wide policy that applies equally to every inmate. It is determined by the individual's custody level and housing assignment within the facility. Inmates at lower custody levels or in general population units are more commonly eligible for contact visits where you sit across a table in the same room. Inmates in higher custody classifications, administrative segregation, protective custody, or those...

FCI Danbury operates as a low security federal correctional institution, which means the daily experience is meaningfully different from medium or high security facilities. Inmates are not confined to their cells for the majority of the day. Instead the facility uses a system called controlled movement, where inmates are permitted to move between areas of the compound during designated time windows, typically announced by a tone or announcement, rather than being allowed to roam freely at all times. The two primary...