Subject: Family services
There are no programs specifically designed for inmate families. However, general indigent assistance programs are available in Oklahoma covering rent, food, utilities, and transportation. Qualifying based on income and medical hardship is likely given the circumstances.
Subject: Send inmate mail
You will get an email notification that will alert you that there is a letter from your inmate scanned into your account
Subject: Inmate phone calls
Our Discount Telephone Service works for almost every facility in the country. If you send us your telephone number and the name of the facility, we will give you an honest estimate before you sign up.
Subject: Parole, probation & supervised release
When a probation violation is extremely severe which it appears in the case you've detailed in your question, a probation revocation hearing could be scheduled. There is no set rule as to what happens immediately after a probation violation is reported.
If they are found guilty of probation violation, sentencing will occur shortly after the probation hearing, at which time the court could extend the probation length, impose additional probation terms, order you serve time in jail, or revoke your...
Read moreSubject: Sentencing questions
Yes, he is looking at a very long sentence. These charges are very serious and the fact that he is a felon with a gun is a minimum of five years. Using it in a robbery is twenty years, assault with intent could bring him several decades of hard time.
Subject: Medical treatment
Tetanus shots and tuberculosis (TB) vaccines are regular inoculations that occur in prison and jail. If there was a mouse/rat bite, we are pretty sure the medical staff and any/every facility would make sure the inmate's tenanus shots were recent.
Subject: Parole, probation & supervised release
It can take around six months for the whole process to be investigated and for the parole board to make a decision. Once a decision has been made the inmate will usually be told within a few days. The inmate will receive the decision in writing along with the reasons for it.
If the prisoner’s application for parole is granted then they will be released on their Parole Eligibility Date (PED). If their PED has passed because their initial application...
Read moreSubject: Send inmate mail
When you have completed your letter and are going to checkout, underneath your inmate's name and address it says: **Estimated** **mailing** **date**: an actual date (xx/xx/2016), *How* *long* *will* *my* *letter* *take* *to* *arrive* *?*
When you click it, it gives this explanation: Letters are processed immediately upon entry unless after 6pm on Saturday, those letters will process Monday morning. We estimate that it takes 2-3 business days to make it to the jail. Once there, the staff opens and reads...
Read moreSubject: Survive prison
You can take the clothes in a bag and drop them off. Unfortunately, his needs are immediate and unless you approach the holding police with humility and respect, they will not give the clothes to him, they are not required to be nice, just to detain him and feed him.
Subject: Survive prison
We have had similar questions on Ask the Inmate and have responded very honestly. Some inmates in your spouse's situation will work out a deal to "use the commissary account" of another inmate. You place the money in the other inmate's account and they buy the items your spouse wants. The inmates charge a fee which is usually some percentage of the total money deposited to buy some things for themselves. This is a common inmate-to-inmate service that is against...
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