Subject: Work release
Folks on the outside cannot request or make anything happen on the inside. Inmates with a clean conduct record and that show a willingness to follow recommended programming will get asked to join the work release program.
Subject: Treatment vs.incarceration
The inmate information is not monitored or maintained by the site. We will do so upon request, feel free to share those changes with us via email and we will notify you when it's updated.
Subject: Release questions
It is our understanding that the early release programs are not qualifying most violent offenders.The law is new and there are no cases to point to, but they define the "violent offender" in the language. An inmate will have to petition the court for a resentencing to even get considered for an early release. The sheer risk of having a violent crime happen by someone released on their watch is not going to get much of a chance with this law. You can always...
Read moreSubject: Marriage in prison
Probably not. Inmate marriage is usually reserved for long-term offenders. The county jails are not equiped to handle an inmate wedding.
Subject: Commissary
Inmates shop at the commissary normally once per week. You can place money on their boks using the various inmate money transfer companies. There is either a weekly or monthly maximum spend limit ($75/wk - $340/mo). You cannot normally shop for them unless the facility has an arrangement with a vendor that sells commissary baskets. You would have to check with the exact facility to see if they have a company for you to contact.
Subject: Relationship issues
There is nothing easy about it, and anyone who tells you otherwise has not lived it from either side.
Separation is painful in a way that is hard to describe to someone who has not experienced it. The uncertainty, the financial pressure, the social stigma, the loneliness of holidays and milestones passing without the person you love present, all of it accumulates. Time does help, but it does not make the weight disappear.
What does help is staying connected in whatever ways...
Read moreSubject: Send inmate mail
All correspondence sent to the inmates has the InmateAid corporate address on it. We do not share your information whatsoever. Inmates do write back to our members via the Letters from Inmates service. The letters are received here and we scan them into your My Account area and then notify you by email that you have inmate mail. The cost to retrieve the letter is $1.49. If you include your address in the letter then the inmate would probably correspond...
Read moreSubject: Sentencing questions
The parole threshold dates are set by the judge in his Judgment and Commitment Order. If the inmate has already served 80% of their sentence, there were either no parole opportunities offered or they were denied. We know that the states offer 15% good time and if your inmate does indeed have a clean record, he might be within a year of being released to a halfway house. Of course, we are guessing because we do not have the benefit...
Read moreSubject: Visitation
Yes, and the visitation for work release inmates is quite comfortable. Call the facility for exact times and requirements.
Subject: Relationship issues
You want to change who your inmate may call? That will NEVER happen. You cannot control the inmate's call list, visitation list or how they spend the money they have on their books. Inmates have privacy rights, too. If you do not want an inmate to contact you, you can call the facility and speak to a counselor or case manager - they will see to it that you are not disturbed.
