Yes, InmateAid's full range of services is available for inmates at both Lower Buckeye Jail and Towers Jail in Maricopa County, Arizona. The phone service works the same way it does at any other facility. InmateAid identifies the number that gets you the lowest available rate through whatever carrier Maricopa County uses at those jails, and every call your inmate makes to that number costs less than it would to your regular number. Hundreds of families are already using the service...

The picture here is not good, and laying it out honestly is more useful than softening it. Two probation violations on top of nearly a year of absconding and a failure to appear is a stack of problems that gives a judge very little reason to extend leniency again. Each of those issues on its own would be serious. Together, they tell a story of someone who was given multiple opportunities to comply and chose not to engage with the process...

The InmateAid database is updated weekly, which covers the majority of facilities that report transfers and releases on a regular schedule. That said, not every jail and prison pushes updates at the same pace. Some facilities are slower to report transfers through official channels, which means there can be a lag between when an inmate actually moves and when that move shows up in any public-facing database including ours. If you know your son has transferred to a new facility and...

Each InmateAid phone line is set up for one forward-to number at a time. That means the InmateAid number your inmate dials routes to one specific number on the outside, whether that is yours or someone else's. If your inmate needs to reach multiple people at the discounted rate, the solution is to set up multiple lines, one for each person who wants to receive calls at the lower price. Each line has its own InmateAid number that forwards to a...

Paid restitution will not block the transfer. Once the financial obligation is satisfied, that is no longer a barrier to release or to transferring supervision to another state. What does have to happen is a formal process between the two states before he can go home to Alabama. Interstate supervision transfers are governed by the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision, which is an agreement between all 50 states that establishes how parolees and probationers can move between states while remaining...