The first few days are the hardest, and they are also the most important in terms of how someone establishes themselves in a new environment. What your son does and does not do in the first week will shape his experience for the duration. The most important thing he can do is keep to himself. Not rudely, not fearfully, just quietly. Greet people respectfully, do not engage in conversations about charges or sentences, do not accept anything from anyone without knowing...

When a jail releases someone to ICE custody, the transfer typically happens quickly, often within hours to a few days of the court order. ICE does not always announce when they will pick someone up, and the process is not publicly tracked in real time. The jail will hold the person until ICE arrives to take custody. Once ICE takes over, what happens next depends on several factors including the person's immigration history, how long they have been in the country,...

Supermax facilities, and ADX Florence in Colorado specifically, are designed around one principle: total control of the inmate's environment. Everything about the physical design and daily routine is engineered to prevent communication, coordination, and any sense of normal human interaction. Cells are small, self-contained, and deliberately disorienting. Natural light is limited. Inmates spend the vast majority of their time in solitary confinement, sometimes 22 to 23 hours a day, with minimal human contact beyond brief interactions with staff. The social deprivation...

This is a situation where the answer is technically possible but practically inadvisable, and the risks far outweigh any benefit. Co-defendants visiting each other is something facilities and prosecutors watch for specifically. The visitation approval process cross-references law enforcement databases, and if the connection between you and the inmate surfaces during that check, the application will almost certainly be denied. Beyond the denial, the attempt itself can raise flags with prosecutors who may interpret it as an effort to coordinate testimony,...

There is no policy that prevents someone with a felony record from writing letters to an inmate. That restriction does not exist. People with felony convictions can and do correspond with incarcerated people without any legal barrier to doing so. The rules you may be thinking of are two separate and distinct policies that sometimes get confused with each other. The first is inmate-to-inmate correspondence. Most facilities prohibit or strictly limit mail between two incarcerated people. If both the sender and the...

Gracias por sus amables palabras sobre el sitio. Aquí están las respuestas a sus preguntas. En cuanto al tiempo que debe cumplir, una sentencia federal de 24 meses requiere que el recluso cumpla el 85% del tiempo. Eso equivale a aproximadamente 20 meses. Si su pareja no tiene antecedentes penales y mantiene un buen comportamiento dentro de la prisión, no debería perder ningún crédito de buena conducta. MCC San Diego es una instalación federal, por lo que aplican las reglas del...

Yes. The written content of your letters is not restricted in the same way as photos are. You can write as openly and intimately as you want without worrying about the letter being rejected at the mail room. The distinction that matters is between words and images. Explicit written content in a letter is permitted. Explicit photos are not. Staff inspects all incoming mail, but a letter with intimate or suggestive written content will pass through without issue. A photo showing...

Six years for a probation violation with no new crime, where the underlying issue was homelessness and an inability to meet registration requirements, is a sentence that deserves serious legal scrutiny. The circumstances you are describing, a probation officer who never verified housing, repeated releases without a stable placement in place, and a technical violation rather than a new offense, are exactly the kind of factors a competent defense attorney can argue in a motion for reconsideration or appeal. Here is...

No one currently incarcerated is answering questions on InmateAid. Inmates inside correctional facilities do not have access to the internet, computers, or any platform that would allow them to participate directly in an online Q&A service. The people answering questions on Ask the Inmate are former inmates, people who have already served their time and bring firsthand knowledge of the correctional system to the answers they give. That experience is what makes the answers on this section of the site different...