After Prison Services — Ask the Inmate
Leaving prison is not the finish line, it is the starting line of one of the most challenging transitions a person can face. The weeks and months immediately after release determine whether someone successfully rebuilds their life or cycles back into the system. This section covers everything that happens after the prison doors open: finding housing, securing employment with a criminal record, navigating supervised release conditions, understanding reentry resources in your community, and reconnecting with family after time apart. For families who have supported a loved one through their sentence the reentry period requires just as much preparation and support as the incarceration itself. The practical questions answered here come from people who have lived through reentry and from families who helped make it work. Whether your loved one is weeks away from release or just starting a long sentence with reentry already in mind the earlier the planning begins the better the outcome. See also our sections on Halfway House, Parole and Probation, and Work Release.
Really? If that were to happen, who would be posting this anywhere?? If a staff member has sex with an inmate, they become an inmate too. This is a serious felony.
Read morepossibly due to overcrowding or maybe even good behavior
Read moreNot likely, a four year sentence sounds like a state crime so they would be transferred to a state facility.
Read moreThe 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
Read moreHER desire to change has to be the overriding effort to start over clean. Nothing but "her will" to overcome this will work. All of the love and support is great, but if she doesn't want a different outcome, then nothing will change.
Read moreFederal law requires lengthy 5-, 7-, 10-, and 30-year mandatory minimum sentences for possessing, brandishing, or discharging a gun in the course of a drug trafficking crime or a crime of violence. There are also mandatory minimum sentences of 25 years for each subsequent conviction. The law requires that these mandatory prison terms be served back-to-back (i.e., consecutively, not concurrently) with each other and with any other punishment the person receives for the underlying offense. This is known as “stacking,”
Read more30 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!
Read moreYes, 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.
Read moreDo 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.
Read moreThis 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.
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