Subject: Prison violence
What facility are you inquiring about, they are all different? Custody levels and sentence lengths have a lot to do with the conditions. Inmates with more time and less freedoms tend to be a harder time for the inmates.
Subject: Release questions
Yes - you are entitled to whatever balance you had in your account, barring you owing any fees or restitution upon your release.
Subject: Inmate phone calls
InmateAid is NOT a replacement for the phone service at the prison or jail, we make their service cheaper with local phone numbers (or in the case of Securus, NCIC or City TeleCoin we get out of state numbers to save you money). Sometimes our service can save you as much as $12.00 per phone call, other times it will not save anything. If you would like to get an honest assessment, let us know the name of the facility...
Read moreSubject: Survive prison
You might try mailing a letter or postcard. The guards are normally not permitted to pass notes to inmates from the outside. All correspondence is supposed to be monitored and cataloged.
Subject: Send inmate mail
The letter and photo service from InmateAid is straightforward. You type up a letter and upload photos where applicable - proceed to the Pay Now page and complete the transaction.
The letter order flows through our Admin area to the Processing Department. Letters are processed immediately upon entry unless it is after 6pm on Saturday, then the letters do not go through the process until Monday morning. You may check in your My Account area to see the status of your...
Read moreSubject: Send inmate mail
Yes, it's called Inmate Response Mail
Inmates that have money on their inmate trust accounts can purchase stamps and envelopes at the weekly commissary. If they do not have money on their books, the prison will provide indigent inmates with all the materials necessary to send out mail to their loved ones.
If your inmate writes to you directly, using your address, the cost of the mailing is a 49 cent stamp. Many of our members use the Inmate Response Mail service...
Read moreSubject: Send inmate mail
The short answer is similar but not the same, and it varies considerably depending on which state you are dealing with.
The federal Bureau of Prisons uses TRULINCS, which is the Trust Fund Limited Inmate Computer System. It is not true email in the way most people think of it. Messages are screened, delayed, and monitored before delivery, but it functions like email and is available across the federal system consistently.
State systems are a patchwork. Some states have rolled out electronic...
Read moreSubject: General prison questions-terminology
Inmates do NOT have Internet access. However there are some services available for inmates to send their Facebook updates via postal mail to the person/company receiving their requests (and charging for their services) - they will update the pages for the inmate.
Subject: Inmate search
What facility is he in if you know, and if not what state is he in? We'll find his ID number and set up the account for you and let you know what it is ready to use
Subject: Sentence reduction
There is only one option. It is called a Motion 2255 which is also known as "ineffectiveness of council". This is a steep hurdle for the defendant to prove. Your description of the events does not make it clear that the attorney dropped the ball, as there are so many variables that are plausible in this scenario but if you have the money and wish to explore your options, you need to find a GREAT post-conviction attorney. Finding an attorney...
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