Yes, magazine subscriptions can follow an inmate through a transfer, but it does not happen automatically. The publisher needs to be notified of the new address before they can redirect future issues. If you ordered the subscription through InmateAid, just send an email to aid@inmateaid.com with the updated facility information and InmateAid will handle the notification to the publisher directly. Publishers are generally good about making sure issues get delivered even when there has been a move, and any issues that...

This is a hard situation to hear clearly when you are in the middle of it, so here is a straight read on what is actually happening. Eight months in, a drug problem on her record, and she pivoted to another man the moment the money stopped. That is not a coincidence. Inmates, particularly those dealing with addiction, learn quickly who on the outside will keep their accounts funded and their commissary stocked. It is not always calculated in a cold...

Administrative segregation refers to both a classification and a type of unit. There are at least three distinct types of segregation: administrative segregation, disciplinary segregation, and protective … Any of these types of segregation might involve a regimen of solitary (or near solitary) confinement. Administrative segregation (ad seg) is when an inmate is housed separately from the main prison population. In most prisons, ad seg is another term for solitary confinement. Typically, inmates get "put in the hole" if they violate prison rules,...

InmateAid was founded in April 2012 by someone who spent 66 months in federal prison and understood firsthand what families on the outside actually need. Not a corporate interpretation of it. The real thing. That origin shapes everything about how the site operates, from the tone of the answers in this archive to the way the phone service is priced to the fact that mail gets resent at no charge when something goes wrong. The people who find InmateAid are rarely...

It depends on four words in the sentencing order: with or without parole. A life sentence with the possibility of parole is fundamentally different from life without parole, even though both sound permanent from the outside. If parole is possible, there is a real and legitimate path to release. It is not easy, it is not fast, and it is not guaranteed, but it exists. Inmates serving life with parole become eligible for a hearing after serving a minimum number of...