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Subject: Visitation

Why worry if you are on their visiting list? If you do not want to visit, don't go.

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Subject: Visitation

No, you can visit any inmate as long as you are approved and that the inmate requested you to be on their list.

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Subject: General prison questions-terminology

There are no phone or power outages in ANY federal prison. They maintain their own power source if that were to happen to the electricity grid. There are many safeguards to protect the public from a federal prison losing power... all the gates, the cells, the pods are on electrical controls - they can't have an outage of any kind.

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Subject: Send inmate mail

Yes, InmateAID is a preferred source of inmate mail at EVERY prison and jail in the US. The mail room staff knows that since 2012, they can trust that the mail with an InmateAID logo on the envelope to be free from contraband or any other attempt to smuggle things into their facility.

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Subject: Inmate search

Conflicting information across inmate search sites is a common and frustrating problem. Different databases pull from different sources, update on different schedules, and sometimes reflect a transfer that one system has processed while another has not caught up yet. Two sites showing two different Oklahoma locations does not necessarily mean either is wrong, it may simply mean your son was recently moved and the records have not synchronized. VINELink.com is the most trustworthy single source for resolving this kind

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Subject: Inmate phone calls

Lapeer County Jail in Michigan uses Securus as its phone carrier, and the standard rate for an in-state call runs $21.34 per 15 minutes. That is one of the higher rates in the state and it adds up fast for anyone talking regularly. InmateAid's discount number brings that same 15-minute call down to $3.15, a savings of about $18 per call. Over the course of a month with regular communication that difference is substantial. Here is how it

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Subject: Send books and magazines

The rules on Bible covers and bindings vary enough between facilities that calling the chaplain at the specific institution is genuinely the best first step before purchasing anything. Most correctional facilities allow religious texts, including Bibles, but their policies on acceptable bindings differ. Some facilities permit hardcover and leather-bound religious texts as an exception to the general paperback-only rule for books, specifically because of the religious nature of the item. Others restrict all incoming books to paperback regardless of

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Subject: Visitation

No, it is going to be different and you are probably going to have to go through the approval process again

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Subject: Bail & bond questions

There is no time limit. If it is unpaid, he remains in custody so the clock is more on him than anyone

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Subject: General prison questions-terminology

This depends on their situation. If they have no money on their commissary, then it is money so they can buy the little extras. If it is phone time that they lack, then it's phone minutes. If they have those two and you are talking about buying them things, we highly recommend magazine subscriptions or books if they like to read.

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