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Subject: Send inmate mail

No to both, and these are hard prohibitions rather than flexible guidelines. Inmates are not permitted to communicate directly with other inmates at other facilities, whether through email, letters, or any other channel. The concern is obvious: unchecked inmate-to-inmate communication across facilities creates serious risks around coordination of criminal activity, gang communication, intimidation of witnesses, and other security threats. The system is designed to prevent it. Money transfers between inmates are equally prohibited. Inmates cannot send funds to each

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Subject: Send inmate mail

The inmates can send all the letters they want, provided they buy stamps in the commissary for postage. The inmates without money on their books can get stamps and letter writing material for free (as indigent inmates).

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Subject: Inmate search

The law prohibits the listing of juveniles in ANY inmate locator. In fact, they are referred to as residents and their incarceration is completely private.

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Subject: Send books and magazines

Yes. Tattoo Magazine can be sent to inmates at Oregon State Correctional Institution. You can order it through Amazon and ship it directly to the facility, or you can send it through InmateAid as we work with the same publisher. A couple of things to keep in mind when ordering any magazine subscription for an inmate. The subscription must ship directly from the publisher or an approved retailer. Magazines sent from a personal address will be rejected at the

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Subject: After prison challenges & services

Federal law under 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c) imposes mandatory minimum sentences for using or possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking crime or crime of violence. The mandatory minimums are steep on their own: 5 years for possession, 7 years for brandishing, and 10 years for discharging the weapon. A second or subsequent conviction under 924(c) triggers a 25-year mandatory minimum on top of everything else. The stacking problem comes from how these sentences are applied. Under the law,

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Subject: Inmate phone calls

This phone service will work with every jail listed, The only thing that changes is the price based upon your current number vs. the location of the facility.

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Subject: Sentence reduction

All inmates receive "good time credits" when they begin their sentence. Usually, that is 15% and that is the most it can be, it can only lessen by bad behavior. The one way for early release is if the inmate has information about another crime or criminal enterprise that would lead to the prosecution and conviction of another. THAT is also called snitching (not recommended) and it could carry repercussions on the yard, but the weak-minded always look for a short cut.

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Subject: Prison discipline

Ther prisons do not share any information about the reasons for anything that goes on inside the walls. Unless the issue leaks out from an inmate that shared it with their loved ones, no news gets out 

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Subject: Pending criminal charges

The federal charge would have to be adjudicated in District Court to know the outcome. The inmate will be held in their current location to serve out the remainder of their sentence. During the court proceedings, the inmate will be transferred to a county jail in the jurisdiction where the indictment was handed down to face the federal charges. The time they do counts toward their accrued time.

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Subject: Survive prison

Safe is a relative thing. Only he can make things worse if he misbehaves. If he is able to follow rules without an attitude then he will get through this using his social skills like when he was on the street. Most inmates have to work. The hours are usually not long and you can imagine the pay is tiny, but it'll keep him in a routine (that is very safe) and even buy some extras at the commissary with what that

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