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Subject: Relationship issues

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Subject: Inmate phone calls

If you are really worried, we would advise you to call the facility and ask to speak to their counselor to see if they have any recent restrictions.

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Subject: Sex offenders

Sex offenders get the same privileges that all other inmates get in the federal system. They get Corrlinks email and 300 minutes just like other inmates.

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Subject: Visitation

You must disclose on your application that you were charged with domestic violence. The facility will decide whether or not to approve your application to visit, it probably will not affect phone calls.

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Subject: Arrest record search

Yes. In Arizona, if you are stopped or detained and a warrant comes up in the system, you will be taken into custody. Where you end up depends on the circumstances of the arrest and the nature of the warrant. In most cases you will be transported to the nearest county jail first. From there, if the warrant was issued in a different county, you may be transferred to the jurisdiction where the warrant originated. That transfer can happen

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Subject: Visitation

You are probably already approved, we would give them a call at the facility to double-check

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Subject: Inmate search

You can contact the Clerk of the Court to get the transcripts of the case and the sentencing where they were adjudicated

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Subject: Inmate phone calls

The number that you give your inmate is placed on their call list which is through their Trulincs account. When the calls come through the federal prison phone system, there is no caller ID. Normally it will say UNKNOWN. FYI, there is nothing "private" in prison, every call is listened to.

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Subject: General prison questions-terminology

Normally after count time and before dinner

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Subject: Sex offenders

Absolutely not, that is a felony. It is against the law for any correctional employee to have a sexual relationship with an inmate

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