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Subject: Website function questions

We will resend it to the new location for you at no charge.

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Subject: Inmate transfer

The offender must be held until that jurisdiction sends the marshal service or their sheriff's deputy to pick them up to face the charges at the new court.

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Subject: Inmate services & supplies

Yes, and access to feminine hygiene products is treated as a basic necessity rather than a privilege in correctional facilities across the country. For inmates who have money on their commissary account, several brands and product types are typically available for purchase. Tampons, pads, and other feminine hygiene items appear on most commissary lists and are generally priced comparably to what you would find at a grocery or drug store. Having funds on the account gives women the ability

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Subject: Pending criminal charges

If you know the county, you can contact the Clerk of the Court and file a request for information. This is where lawyers go to get their information.

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Subject: Medical treatment

The worse thing you can do is get sick in prison. Things don't happen at the speed they do on the outside. You can call the facility and inquire. We recommend using your most humble and polite version of yourself when you do. Making a bad impression by demanding things for your inmate will cause him more harm than good.

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Subject: Inmate phone calls

Federal inmates must pay for their calls though Trulincs, the BOP's version of an "inmate's bank". From Trulincs, the inmate directs the money to their commissary, email (Corrlinks) and phone calls. The phone calls cost either 21 cents per minute or 6 cents per minute (if you are local to the prison). If you are not local and want the calls to be 6 cents per minute, InmateAid gets the local lines for only $8.95. On 300 minutes, the local line

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Subject: Send inmate mail

Not directly. You could imagine the ways that they could accomplish it thought by having someone on the outside do it for them.

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Subject: Prison discipline

Group punishment for some bad act that occurred. 

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Subject: Relationship issues

They BOTH wish!!! Hell no, it's all segregated by sex or there'd be a lot of prison babies :)

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