Inmates must initiate the call. They cannot receive incoming calls. Depending upon where there are, there will be ONE carrier that you must use. You can accept a collect call from the inmate, set up a prepaid account or the inmate might be able to pay for their own calls from their commissary account. The carrier's prices are tiered. InmateAid finds the best number to use on THEIR system. In many cases, we can save your inmate $12.00 per call with
Read moreThe inmate registration or ID number is what facilities use to route deposits, mail, and phone calls to the correct person. There are a few straightforward ways to find it. If you know the state where your cousin is incarcerated, go directly to that state's Department of Corrections website and use their public inmate search. Most state DOC sites let you search by full legal name and date of birth and will return the inmate ID number along with
Read moreYou will have to contact or visit the Clerk of the Court for Val Verde County (assuming this is a state charge). This is where the attorneys go to get their information. The Clerk should be able to give you the entire case in printed form if you are willing to pay for the copying charge. Once you have his case number, you can contact them to get updates.
Read moreThe calls are expensive because it is set up with only one provider. No competition makes it easy for them to charge higher-than-normal rates. It is predatory pricing, but there is nothing you can do about it except check to see if there are better rates with different telephone numbers. That is what our Discount Telephone Service does, it takes the second-guessing out of it. If you provide your telephone number and the location of your inmate, we will give you
Read moreA one-year sentence in a county jail rarely means twelve full months behind bars. The actual time served is almost always less, and in New York the calculation works in his favor. New York state generally applies a good time credit that reduces a sentence by up to a third for inmates who follow the rules and stay out of trouble. On a one-year sentence that works out to about eight months served if he maintains a clean disciplinary
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Read moreYour inmate can write back through InmateAid even without your personal address. The return address printed on every postcard and letter sent through InmateAid is the company's Florida address, not yours. That address is right there on the envelope your inmate receives, and it is all they need to send a reply. When your inmate writes back to that address, InmateAid receives the letter, scans it into your account, and notifies you that a reply is waiting. You log
Read moreIf your inmate sends you a letter to our address, we scan it into your account and notify you by email that it is there. You access the letter in a PDF, it can be read online or downloaded and printed.
Read moreThe Inmate Profiles on InmateAid are created by the Members of the site. If you do not find your inmate when searching, you may simply click "Create a Personal Inmate Page" and add the information. Once set up, your account is synced with the inmate's information to facilitate any service you would like to use. If you do not know the inamte's inforamtion, you may email us at aid@inmateaid.com with the offender's name and at least their state, we will
Read moreThe easiest and most reliable way is to send it by mail. But, if you call the facility, it is 50-50 that the person answering will break their internal rules of not passing information to the inmates and do it for you. It's not a major understaking, you just have to get the right person, willing to be nice.
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