It's not a good idea to leave the ID off of the correspondence. If you did the letter through InmateAid, and forgot their ID number - we will resend it at no charge once you correct the information and email it to us.
Read moreStandard continuing education courses completed at a federal prison camp like Montgomery FPC do not directly reduce your sentence the way some people expect. Completing GED programs, vocational training, or college coursework is genuinely valuable and looks good on paper for case manager reviews and halfway house recommendations, but it does not generate the kind of formal sentence reduction that comes from specific designated programs. The one program in the federal system that produces a concrete sentence reduction is
Read moreMailing a letter to an inmate has a few basic requirements that apply universally regardless of which facility the inmate is at. Every piece of outgoing mail must include the sender's name and a return address. This is a postal requirement as well as a facility requirement. Mail arriving without a return address is typically rejected by the mailroom and discarded rather than delivered. Using InmateAid to send letters automatically satisfies this requirement. Your name appears on the envelope
Read moreThere are two reliable paths to getting accurate sentencing information for someone incarcerated in the Massachusetts Department of Corrections system. The first is the Massachusetts DOC offender locator, which is a public-facing search tool available through the state's Executive Office of Public Safety and Security. You can search by name and the results typically include the facility, sentence information, and in many cases the offense of conviction. For someone currently housed at MCI Shirley that database should return a
Read moreInmateAid was set up with this in mind. You can set up a member/user account and sync it to an inmate profile that you create or one that is already created by clicking "follow". You may then write your inmate, send them photos of you and your family, holiday times or other occasions where you are thinking of your inmate. You can create cheaper inmate calling with our Discount Telephone Service, you can send magazine subscriptions from thousands of titles
Read moreAs your fiancé gets closer to his release date, the facility will go over a release plan with him. This usually happens through his counselor or case manager before he is discharged. Transportation after release: If he does not have someone to pick him up, the state will usually provide basic transportation, which may include: A bus ticket (often Greyhound or similar) Transportation to a nearby transit station This is meant to get him back
Read moreWhen someone accepts a plea deal the reduction in sentence is already baked into the agreement. The plea itself is the trade, an acknowledgment of responsibility in exchange for a lesser charge or a lighter sentence than what a conviction at trial might have produced. That negotiation is finished once the judge accepts the plea and imposes the sentence. That does not mean options are completely exhausted but it does mean the available paths are narrower than they would
Read moreHere is a link to the AL DOC Family Handbook (page 14): http://www.doc.state.al.us/docs/PublicMaleInmateHandbook.pdf. You are most likely going to have to request a "special visit" where they give provisional time extensions because of the travel. You may address the "immediate family" issue at that time.
Read moreYes you can write him. There is a waiting period at these Diagnostic facilities as they put the inmates through a thorough testing period and there are some periods of segregation from the outside.
Read moreThere are many reasons that inmates are moved. Most of the time it is nothing to be concerned with. There are changes in the inmate population which require movement and aligning certain inmates with the same classification type based upon the criminal history, violence associated with their crime and length of sentence. Many times, the inmate gets their custody level changed for the better - calling "working your way down" as in the type of housing and security.
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