Subject: Inmate phone calls
You can try, but it seldom works. Correctional staff are not permitted to relay personal messages to inmates as a matter of facility policy. The rules exist for good reason: if staff started passing along phone messages from family members, the volume of requests would be unmanageable and the system would break down quickly. It is not that individual staff members do not want to help. It is that the rules prohibit it.
The most reliable way to get a message...
Read moreSubject: Survive prison
This a small facility in the heat of Louisiana. There is nothing to like about jail, it's confinement with limited privileges. There is no air conditioning but the medical staff is compassionate and willing to help. Just have you inmate ask to see the nurse.
Subject: Prison discipline
There is no way to know for sure. He will be allowed to write you, so ask him why he's there and for how long. I was in the SHU for one day, every minute felt like it was an hour - it is hell. I had my DHO hearing and was luckily released back into gen pop. There was another guy in there for eight months for having a cell phone. Rumor was he got a year in solitary and then...
Read moreSubject: Send inmate mail
If you let us know the new location, we will resend them for you at no charge at any time.
Subject: Prison discipline
It means that they have lost some of their privileges for disciplinary reasons or general population inmates who refuse to accept or perform in a work/training assignment. There is a negative stigma associated to inmates in "C" Status.
Lost privileges may include: no visitation, limited if any commissary, emergency only phone calls, no recreation, no entertainment, no personal property packages
Subject: Medical treatment
Contact lens or glasses are permitted in federal prison. He can buy reading glasses and "artificial tears" which would act as the solution for the contacts, at the commissary if you go that route. If you know his approximate size just guess and get something that is durable and scratch proof.
Subject: Halfway house
If he is approved for home confinement at that address, and he has a job, then he can eventually be released from the halfway house. The time he spends there depends on his compliance with the rules and clean drug and alcohol tests,
Subject: Inmate phone calls
If the inmate has full privileges and money on their books, they may call anytime from 6am to 9:30pm in most facilities
Subject: Release questions
He has a maximum sentence date of Oct 2018, with a projected release date of Jan 2018. If he stays calm and does not have any incident reports, he will get out in January. Tell him to chill and just do the remaining time, "don't let the time do him"
Subject: Send books and magazines
Lee County Detention Center operates under a strict and specific personal property policy that limits what inmates can have in their cells at any given time. The restrictions exist for practical reasons. Cell space is limited, and allowing unlimited personal property creates clutter that encroaches on cellmates' space and generates conflicts. Keeping the allowed item list tight is a deliberate management decision rather than an arbitrary rule.
The current permitted items are clear and specific. Inmates may have up to 20...
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