Subject: Law & court questions - legal terms
You will have to file a motion with the Court to request discovery documents. If you do not know how to write a motion, you will need an attorney to do this for you.
Subject: Prison violence
He needs to get with his counselor or case manager and request a cell change. This carries some potential danger as the "gang members" will see that as a diss. The other option is to ask to be in Ad Sec (Administrative Segregation) which is essentially solitary confinement but no one would be able to get to him there.
Subject: Law & court questions - legal terms
A motion for discovery is a motion made to the court by the party of a criminal proceeding or civil lawsuit to obtain information or evidence regarding the case. As an example, a motion of discovery provides the defendant with notes made by an FBI agent during or shortly after interviewing a potential witness.
Subject: Inmate services & supplies
InmateAid has all of the offerings that you could possibly send an inmate in a prison or jail. Since inmates have a lot of time, reading is something you should encourage, even if reading wasn't a big part of their life on the outside. Using this time in such a way that improves their chances of successful reentry into society. We recommend "the obvious" birthday card and magazines, books, pictures of things you want him to dream about, like you :). If...
Read moreSubject: Bail & bond questions
There is no standard time frame. If could be a day or it could be several weeks depending on the schedule of the magistrate and the prosecutor who determine the viability
Subject: Release questions
Both are returned to you upon full release, but how that money comes back to you matters more than most people expect going out the door.
The facility typically returns remaining funds on a debit card issued at release rather than cash. That sounds convenient until you read the fine print. Most of these release debit cards carry fees that chip away at the balance every time the card is used, sometimes per transaction, sometimes as a monthly maintenance fee, sometimes...
Read moreSubject: Visitation
The new visitation week starts on Monday. That means your visit count resets at the beginning of each Monday and you have a fresh set of visits available for the week running Monday through Sunday.
If you visited on Wednesday and Saturday last week, both of those counted against last week's allotment. Starting Monday you are clear to schedule visits again according to whatever the facility allows per week.
A couple of things worth confirming directly with Brazos County Detention Center before...
Read moreSubject: Commissary
$150 to $200
Subject: Send inmate money
Yes, immediately. Once the restitution is paid in full there is no waiting period before you can deposit funds into the inmate's trust account. The two things are handled through entirely separate systems and one does not create a hold on the other.
Restitution payments go to the court or the victim compensation fund depending on how the order is structured. Commissary deposits go directly into the inmate's trust account through whatever platform the facility uses, whether that is JPay, TouchPay,...
Read moreSubject: Inmate transfer
Yes, and the process is more structured than most people realize.
When an inmate has an outstanding warrant from another jurisdiction, that jurisdiction places what is called a detainer on them. A detainer is a formal legal hold that notifies the facility currently housing the inmate that another agency has a claim on them. It essentially says do not release this person without notifying us first.
Once the current sentence or custody situation is resolved, or sometimes while it is still ongoing...
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