Subject: Family services
Yes, they use the InmateAid office address - the mail comes in and is scanned and placed into your My Account Dashboard. This serves to protect the user on several fronts. If you mail into the prison/jail with a return address, and you want your inmate to know your address, it's best to put it in the body of the letter and not the return address. Other inmates use that sort of detail to extort, blackmail or otherwise menace good folks...
Read moreSubject: Survive prison
It's impossible if you are close to the ones you love. For me, it felt like I died but I had to watch them go on living without me. It was sad...
Subject: Bail & bond questions
Usually not. it would have to be a very slight violation. Magistrates HATE seeing an offender violate in any way... makes them think the person that got an early release really didn't deserve it.
Subject: Release questions
Your buddy is probably being optimistic, and that optimism may not be grounded in how judges actually look at this situation.
Catching new felony charges while already serving time or on supervised release is about the worst signal you can send to a court. The existing sentence was already a message that the system sent once. New charges, while on paper, tell a judge that the message did not land. Courts do not respond well to that, and the idea that...
Read moreSubject: Parole & probation
He would have to have a suitable residence and job awaiting him outside of Arkansas if he wants to do his parole time out-of-state.
Subject: Website function questions
We have been around since 2012, and we serve folks with people in all LA County Jails
Subject: Bail & bond questions
Non-violent offenders are treated for bail similarly to all defendants. The magistrate assesses the crime, the criminal history, the size of the loss, and potential harm to the public if released. If it is determined that all of the criteria is benign and there is no risk that the offender will appear for their court appointment, then there is a chance that they will be ROR's (released on their own recognizance)
Subject: Send inmate mail
Inmates have no access to the internet, however there are some facilities that allow inmate email. This is not an "open internet", but a closed system where all email correspondence is on a 2-3 hour delay and everything is closely monitored.
Subject: Survive prison
It matters more than most people on the outside realize.
Incarceration is isolating by design. The days are long, the environment is monotonous, and the psychological weight of being cut off from normal life accumulates over time. Anything that keeps an inmate connected to the people and the world they are going back to lifts that weight in a real and measurable way.
A phone call that gets answered is not just a conversation. It is confirmation that someone is still there,...
Read moreSubject: Survive prison
The hard truth is that your options are limited, and it is worth knowing that going in so you are not spinning your wheels chasing solutions that do not exist.
What you are describing sounds like group punishment. When something happens in a unit, whether it is a fight, contraband found during a search, or any number of other incidents, the entire population gets locked down regardless of individual involvement. Facilities do not owe an explanation to inmates or their families,...
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