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Subject: After prison challenges & services

Do you have an idea of the state or county they were charged? If federal we might be able to help. If this is a state charge, you have to find out where the have re-entry facilities in the area where he was charged. Usually, it is some sort of a Salvation Army facility.

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Subject: Inmate phone calls

Each facility has one phone carrier only. The company that they use determines the pricing. That is why the price is so high. InmateAid uses software to determine the best price based on YOUR phone number and the carrier. We can save big money on about 70% of the instances. We encourage you to email or call to get an honest estimate before you buy. If you buy and we cannot save you money, we will refund the transaction, no

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Subject: General prison questions-terminology

About one week, and the timing is tied to how the BOP structures its orientation process. The Bureau of Prisons runs Admissions and Orientation on Wednesdays at most facilities. That is the formal day when new inmates go through the full intake briefing, get their accounts set up, and have phone and visitation access activated. The exact wait depends on what day your person arrived. Someone who comes in on a Tuesday only has to wait one day until

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Subject: Prison discipline

SID is code for special internal investigation. The inmate is under investigation for an infraction of sorts. Normally, any inmate under investigation is relegated to the SHU (the hole, isolation) and cannot receive visits until there is a decision handed down.

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Subject: Arrest record search

Arrest reports are not freely available through standard public inmate search tools. They are law enforcement documents rather than court records, and accessing them requires going through the right channels. The most direct route is to contact the arresting agency, whether that is the county sheriff's office, local police department, or state patrol, and request a copy of the arrest report through their records division. Wyoming law enforcement agencies process public records requests under the Wyoming Public Records Act.

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Subject: Inmate transfer

This usually takes about a week, depending on bed space and length of travel. The US Marshal Service transports the federal inmates in a very secretive manner so as not to alert anyone on the outside the travel arrangments so the safety of all. As soon as you find out where he lands, let us know because we can get you a local phone number which makes the calls to you at the lowest tariff (6 cents per minute).

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Subject: Inmate phone calls

InmateAid is always the BEST way... if you are at the cheapest rate already, we will let you know and cancel the transaction.

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Subject: Commissary

I absolutely think it is a good thing AND i think the items are fairly priced. I do feel that indigent inmates should be given a weekly stipend if they have no sourcce of outside funds so that there is no perceived gap between the haves and the have nots. Jealousy could create an incident but that is the only downside I see.

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Subject: Post conviction appeals

The follow up for an appellate remand is normally a few weeks to 3-4 months. It depends on the prosecutor's office to set the pace based on their caseload.

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Subject: Sentencing questions

There are a few considerations that must be factored in this because it is possible that a drug program might be substituted for incarceration. Marijuana is becoming more and more a minor offense, the part that is troubling is the 3rd cocaine charge... what the quantity/street value and that might give you an idea of what she is facing. If previous charges are heavily considered, she might have to so some time

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