The sentencing date itself is public information and the easiest thing to track down. Contact the Clerk of the Court in the county where the charges were filed. That office maintains the court calendar and can tell you when the sentencing hearing is scheduled. Most clerk offices can be reached by phone, and many counties now have online case search portals where you can look up the case by name or case number and see upcoming hearing dates without making...

On good behavior and early release, the honest answer is not likely. A violation of probation sentence is handed down specifically because the original conditions of supervision were not met. The judge already extended leniency once when probation was granted instead of prison time, and the VOP sentence is the response to that trust being broken. Most judges structure VOP time to be served without the same good time credits that apply to standard sentences, though it varies by state...

InmateAid does not replace the prison phone company. Our Discount Phone Service works by using software to compare inmate call prices for all of the 25 or so prison phone carriers against all possible tariff scenarios. In 80% of the cases, a change in phone number will reduce the calls by up to 90% (usually 40-50%).  Some prisons use a system where the LOCAL line is the lowest price. So if you are not local, your calls will be 3-4 times more than a...

Yes, and you are far from alone in dealing with it. What you are experiencing is one of the most common relationship strains that comes with incarceration, and it has very little to do with anything you are actually doing. An inmate sitting in a cell 23 hours a day has one thing in unlimited supply: time. And time without distraction, without purpose, without control over anything in their environment, has a way of turning into anxiety that needs somewhere to...