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Subject: Parole & probation

This depends on the release terms set by the case manager. If your sentence is over two years, there is likely to be some halfway house. The counselors in the halfway house are motivated to send residents for home confinement as soon as they meet some minimum requirements like a safe place to live, a job to go to and the promise to avoid known felons while on probation, 

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Subject: Marriage in prison

This depends on several factors. The inmate must be a long-timer with a lot of time left. They must be in a federal facility and the inmate must have a clean record while incarcerated. Please check with your inmate's case manager if it is even an option. 

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Subject: Send inmate mail

Actually, it's cheaper than that! For the 9-Letter and 8-Picture Packages, the total is only $16.00. That is why we have these packages, to help save money and budget yourself through the entire bid

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Subject: General prison questions-terminology

General inmates can access air-conditioning in buildings designated for chapel, programs, classification, medical and administration. There is also a gym. As an aside, the new institutions are designed with air-conditioning, but many current FDOC facilities were constructed prior to air-conditioning being commonplace and were instead designed to facilitate airflow to provide natural cooling within them. Housing units with air-conditioning make up approximately 24 percent of FDC’s housing units (dorms).

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Subject: Release questions

If the inmate's posted release date is 9/15/24, it has likely already been considered including the good-time credit given at the time of incarceration by the FBOP (automatic 15%). An inmate can only lose part or all of that good time, not gain more ...unless they decide to cooperate and give someone up to get some time shaved.

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Subject: Inmate phone calls

There are limited ways to "speak to an inmate". The obvious ways are with the telephone, but the inmate must initiate the call. For them to do that, there needs to be an account set up somewhere. Visitation is another way. Writing letters is another way to communicate. All of these methods are going to have some costs associated, unfortunately. Getting locked up is more expensive to the friends and family on the outside than for the inmate on the inside.

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Subject: Survive prison

The biggest no-no in jail is to talk about your case. People in jail have usually not been sentenced yet. Jail is not prison, it comes before prison. Inmates in jail are still fighting their cases, as are you. Talking to them about your case could end up putting you away. If you tell them something juicy enough, they'll call their attorney and provide the information they heard from you. The hope is that ratting on you gets them a lighter sentence. Prosecutors will

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Subject: Bail & bond questions

You can pay someone's bond in most circumstances but when a protection order is involved, the situation requires careful attention to the specific language of that order before you do anything. Protection orders vary in what they prohibit. Some orders restrict the protected person from having any contact with the defendant including indirect contact through third parties. Others are more limited in scope. If your order specifically prohibits you from having any contact with him or from taking actions

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Subject: Halfway house

RRM (residential reentry management) center is the federal halfway house in Central Florida

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Subject: Marriage in prison

no, there are no conjugal visits any longer

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