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Ask a former inmate questions at no charge. The inmate answering has spent considerable time in the federal prison system, state and county jails, and in a prison that was run by the private prison entity CCA.

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Subject: Survive prison

This depends on where you are doing your time. 1-2 years in women's federal, you are probably in lower custody facilities. My best advice is to remain quiet, don't talk about your charge or your co-defendants and always look them in the eye when talking. No one wants to stay any longer than they have to so, most if not all are not looking to catch another charge and adding to the sentence. BUT, If there is anything of a

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Subject: Website function questions

Inmates do not register on InmateAid. InmateAid is a "service for you to aid them"... All of our mail is processed by a fulfillment house that prints and mails the details of your order to the inmate you select. Your Account Dashboard keeps track of all the correspondence, calling minutes, magazine orders, everything you can think of that might make your inmate's day a little better. You can set up a Holiday Package that reminds you to say "hi" during

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Subject: Inmate phone calls

Depends on how the account is set up. If you set up a "one-number only" Service like InmateAid, only the calls you pay for will come to you. 

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Subject: Website function questions

The Letters from Inmates Service are only $1.49 per mail piece. The inmate is using the InmateAID physical address to receive the mail. We then scan the contents into a file that you access in your My Account Dashboard. A lot of our best customers like having the privacy of their home address for safety reasons. Addresses get in the hands of other inmates and this Service removes that potential problem.

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Subject: Sentencing questions

This is going to depend on the number of people affected by the crime, the amount of money "lost" from the actions of the defendant and their criminal history are all mitigating factors in the sentence determination. It could be years frankly.

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Subject: Sentencing questions

Usually, the good time in state prison is 15%, however, in state cases, there might be the possibility of parole. If the judge allows for parole in their Judgment and Commitment document then the offender might be looking at their first parole hearing in about 32 months. If no parole is offered, 85% of 96 months is about 82 months.

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Subject: Send inmate mail

sure, letters are great... so are pictures, but they cannot contain any nudity or they'll be sent back.

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Subject: Website function questions

No, this is more for the friends and family of the incarcerated and none of the messages or correspondence with the inmates is public. Unless you are asking a question on Ask the Inmate, we publish the questions and the answers so that maybe something you ask will help something who has the same question but didn't ask. This is definitely NOT a dating site.

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Subject: Inmate phone calls

just send an email to aid@inmateaid.com and we will send you a new number immediately.

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Subject: Inmate phone calls

Para nuestro Servicio, el preso usa el número que le proporcionamos. Este número se corresponde con el servicio de la instalación para obtener la tarifa más baja que ofrecen. El cargo por llamada es normalmente un 50% más bajo con el mejor número de teléfono

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