Subject: Inmate phone calls
Federal inmates are allowed 300 minutes per month (400 mins Nov & Dec) - outbound calling only. They are 15-minutes each and are paid for from their Trulincs account (which can be funded by outside people or through the job they have inside). The calls are either SIX cents per minute (local) or TWENTY-ONE cents per minute (long-distance). InmateAid can get you a local line for almost all federal facilities for only $5.00. You save $45 per month!!
Subject: Parole & probation
Probation violations do not get bail of any kind. They must wait and appear before the magistrate that sentenced them to see what the punishment will be, if any.
Subject: Parole & probation
You will need to locate the email address or phone number for the Parole Board (different in every state) and file a petition in opposition to the inmate's pending hearing for early release. The Board takes these petitions seriously
Subject: Inmate services & supplies
If you ask an inmate (as you are now), the more the merrier :)... but you as a person on the outside trying to take care of your own expenses you should budget what you can afford to send. If money is no object, you might consider $75/wk for commissary and phone. In the federal system, they can only spend $69/month on phone and $315 on commissary + whatever money the emails are. It can become quite expensive so be careful...
Read moreSubject: Relationship issues
He doesn't want to see you. Try sending a letter and find out why.
Subject: Inmate search
try this link: http://www.dc.state.fl.us/OffenderSearch/Search.aspx
Subject: Prison discipline
An RVR, or Rules Violation Report, is an internal disciplinary document generated when an inmate is found to have violated facility rules. It becomes part of the inmate's institutional record and is treated as protected information under federal and state privacy statutes.
As a family member or partner on the outside, you have no legal right to access that record without the inmate's consent. The facility will not disclose disciplinary information to outside parties, and there is no public database or...
Read moreSubject: Website function questions
The questions are answered normally within a few hours - you are notified via email, the response is also in your Account Dashboard. When a question is not answered immediately, it means that there are several similar questions already answered. If it is a question about a specific inmate we do not answer those. We are answering the ones that we haven't answered before and that will help other people who might be running into the same issue. There are over 5,000...
Read moreSubject: Inmate phone calls
Let us know the name of the facility and your phone number - we will give you an honest estimate of the savings before you buy
Subject: Relationship issues
Your inmate might be deep in his feelings. He's looking an amount of time that is making him think that the future with you is limited, that you might leave him anyway. Give it some time (as he suggests) and then try again in a few weeks, maybe send him a magazine subscription that would have him thinking about "who sent it" every time he gets an issue?
