Some facilities do charge a small co-pay for medical and dental visits, typically in the range of a few dollars per visit. It varies by facility, and not all jails have this practice. But here is the important part: an inmate who has no money in their account is not denied medical care because of it. Indigent inmates receive the same treatment as everyone else. The facility cannot legally withhold necessary medical attention because someone cannot pay. So if
Read moreIt depends on the state that issued the warrant and how aggressively they choose to pursue it, and that calculation changes significantly based on the nature of the violation. When someone violates parole by failing to report rather than catching new charges, the issuing state has a decision to make. They can choose to extradite, meaning send law enforcement to pick the person up and transport them back to face the violation, or they can choose not to pursue
Read moreIt depends entirely on how that specific facility processes incoming money orders, and there is no way to know from the outside without checking. Some smaller county jails will process a deposit by name alone if there is no other inmate there with the same name. Others require the inmate ID number and will hold or return anything that arrives without it. Call Gonzales County Jail directly and let them know you sent a money order with just his
Read moreThere is no verification by the jail of the receipt of incoming mail. We only know if the letter is returned. If that occurs we investigate the reason and give you options as to what solutions are available. Sometimes a simple remail works, other times there are missing ID numbers, the inmate got moved or the wrong facility was selected - regardless of the reason will resend the letters at no charge.
Read moreInmateAid does not replace Securus, but it can make Securus significantly cheaper. The way it works is that Securus charges different rates depending on the type of number the call is going to, and those rates vary by carrier and location in ways that are not obvious to the person receiving calls. InmateAid finds the phone number in their system that triggers Securus's lowest available rate for your specific facility, and provides you with a forwarding number that routes calls
Read moreThe phone service at a particular correctional center is set up through bid process. Whoever has the contract for all inmate outbound calling and to tape record the calls - has essentially a monopoly. Therefore, you have to use them to receive any calls and they do not have anyone competing . The choice is whether you pay them for a long distance call (to your number) or a local call (to a number that we get you). If you
Read moreIn most cases we can get a number that will make the calls cheaper. There are about 12-13 state prisons that have flat rates where our service will not benefit you. Almost all of the county jails and federal prisons have rates that offer a break with a new number. Carefully read all of the postings about the service on our site. We make it easy to understand and offer assistance and coupons to try the service for a month
Read moreLouisiana does have one of the more generous good-time credit systems in the country, and the 3-to-1 ratio is real, but it comes with conditions and does not apply to everyone. Under Louisiana law, eligible inmates can earn diminution of sentence credits that effectively allow them to serve significantly less than the sentence imposed. The way it works is that for every day served without a disciplinary infraction, additional days get credited toward the sentence. In some circumstances, that
Read moreThe visitation structure is based on the facility and it's custody level. The higher the security level, the more restrictive visitation is. For instance the highest security level of custody does not allow contact visits, the communication is conducted face-to-face through Plexiglas cubicles on recorded telephones. Medium and low security have visitation where the inmates and the visitor sit at a table across from each other - but very limited contact. Minimum security is very liberal where you can sit
Read moreIf the information is not posted online, you can contact the Clerk of the Courts where the sentence was imposed and apply to receive all of the public filings on the case. You can even petition the judge for that information. If that is not a route you want to take, you might try calling the facility and ask to speak with the case manager, counselor or unit team secretary to get more information.
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