This is a serious situation and there are concrete steps you can take immediately to make the calls stop and protect yourself legally. The most direct action is to contact the facility where he is incarcerated and report the calls to the warden's office or the facility's compliance department. Every call made from a correctional facility is recorded and monitored. The facility has the ability to pull the call logs, verify the contact occurred in violation of the court
Read moreInmates that have money on their inmate trust accounts can purchase stamps and envelopes at the weekly commissary. If they do not have money on their books, the prison will provide indigent inmates with all the materials necessary to send out mail to their loved ones. If your inmate writes to you directly, using your address, the cost of the mailing is a 49 cent stamp. Many of our members use the Inmate Response Mail service through InmateAid. Your inmate
Read moreYes, absolutely. This is one of the most important things anyone with an active warrant needs to understand before walking into a correctional facility for any reason. Jails and prisons are law enforcement environments. Every visitor goes through an identification check before being allowed in and that check runs your information against warrant databases. It does not matter whether the warrant is from another county, whether it is for a misdemeanor, or whether you have made repeated good faith
Read moreIf your inmate is in set up in the TruLinks system, their PIN will transfer from facility to facility. Inmate transfers are not publicly posted or acknowledged for security reasons. Once he has reached his new designation, there will be a posting of this new locale on their website. If they land in county for a night or so, the calling from there can only be done "collect".
Read moreMaximum security is the grade of high security level used by prison systems in various states and counties. In a maximum security prison or area, all prisoners have individual cells with sliding doors controlled from a secure remote control station. Often prisoners are confined in their cells 23 hours per day, but in some institutions, prisoners are allowed out of their cells for part of the day (recreation, education or medical). General population areas are limited with timed movements and escorts.
Read moreBoth phone access and visitation get significantly restricted when someone is placed in segregation, but the specifics depend on why they are there. On the phone side, inmates in seg are typically limited to one 15-minute call per week. That is the standard across most federal and state facilities and it applies whether the placement is administrative or disciplinary in nature. However, if the reason for the segregation placement is a disciplinary infraction and a phone restriction was issued
Read moreIt's not fair, but prison is not there for fairness, it is there for the housing of inmates until their sentence is served under rules that we on the outside can't imagine. Visitation is considered a privilege, not a right - and when they take it away it is usually for some sort of egregious act from a group of inmates. The rules that are imposed are not to punish the visitors, they are there to keep the order and control the acts
Read moreInmate transfers are not publicized for security reasons. You will have to wait until his new designation is published on the BOP website. Once he has landed at his new location he will be able to resume contact with you.
Read moreAbsolutely! We have many international members that use the letter and photo service to communicate with their inmate. The service is faster, more reliable, convenient and a lot less money than international mail. What's more, your inmate can write you back through the InmateAid Response Mail service - your inmates writes you through our address, we scan their letter into your account and notify you that it's there for your review.
Read moreChild sex offenders sit at the absolute bottom of the prison social hierarchy and have for as long as anyone who has done time can remember. The term used inside is cho-mo and it is not a neutral label. Inmates convicted of offenses against children are considered to have violated something so fundamental that the normal codes of conduct that govern conflict inside do not apply to them the way they do to everyone else. The reason this particular
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