The pod is a sub-section within the detention center. It is usually a large triangular room with cells lining one of the walls stacked two high. There is an open unit with a TV, several tables that are made for jails with four seats attached. The entire table is attached to the floor. The showers are in the open, in view of the guards who are stationed in a protected booth that looks down on the entire pod

30 years for weed! That is insanity. We don't know whether law changes would do anything to reduce this sentence, but it certainly should in our opinion. We will be praying for you - best of luck!

Yes, unless you are going to live in West Virginia, South Carolina and Mississippi. These states still enforce a lifetime ban on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, for people who commit drug-related felonies. Indiana had a lifetime ban but just changed its law to lift it, effective in 2020.  

Do you have an idea of the state or county they were charged? If federal we might be able to help. If this is a state charge, you have to find out where the have re-entry facilities in the area where he was charged. Usually, it is some sort of a Salvation Army facility.

This depends on the inmate's area of interest. The top picks include fitness magazines (Men's Fitness, Shape, Muscle and Fitness), entertainment magazines (In Touch, OK Weekly, Enquirer, Star), comic book magazines (Superman, Batman, Scooby, X-Men, Marvel, Looney Tunes, MAD), puzzle magazines (Word Find, Crossword, Sudoku, Logic Problems, Daily Word) to name a few favorite topics. Please let us know if you are interested, we will send you a discount coupon to get started.

The InmateAid Discount Phone service will reduce the cost from $1.85 to connect and $0.88 cents/minute to a flat rate of only $0.21/minute. This payment still goes to Securus but the difference in a 15-minute call is significant. Your number is $15.05, our number is $3.15, a savings of $11.90 per call.   InmateAid stretches his call money 5 for one!

Inmates have a form they fill out which can transfer money from their commissary account to someone on the outside. In federal prison, the form is called a BP-199.

just email the new location and we will make the change for you at the publisher. your inmate will not miss an issue.

Inmates do not have Internet access. However this is not 100% certain that they will not see this profile in the event that another inmate has a smuggled smartphone in there. This is an problem issue for the prison system but it does happen from time-to-time.