No. This is a prison rumor, and versions of it have been circulating through correctional facilities across the country for decades. The specific details change depending on the state, the year, and who is telling it, but the pattern is always the same. A specific date, a specific fraction of time, and a specific category of inmates. It sounds credible because it is specific, and it spreads fast because everyone inside wants it to be true. Sentence reduction legislation does not...

Inmates do not have access to the Internet. They must respond with their own version of a postal letter. Inmates 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...

We estimate that it takes 2-3 business days to make it to the jail. Once there, the staff opens and reads each piece of mail and inspects it for contraband. Once they decide the mail is fit to be handed out at mail call, your inmate will receive it. Any delay that occurs at the facility is out of our control. We make no guarantees as to how long it will take as there are thousands of facilities and none of them do things the same...

Once you are approved by Texas for inclusion into an RDAP class your out date will then change on the BOP website. The date will be calculated like this: 30 - 6 = 24 x .85. Sentence duration is 20.4 months but your release date from the camp will be at 14.4 months, assuming that you get 6 months of halfway house. Once in the halfway house if you have an approved residence and a job, you could get home...

Release from a CCA facility, now operating under the name CoreCivic, generally happens in the morning with most releases processed between 7 and 9 a.m. The exact time on any given day depends on how many inmates are being released at once and how smoothly the discharge paperwork and processing moves through the system. Release day involves more administrative steps than most people anticipate. The facility has to complete final paperwork, return personal property, issue any gate money the inmate is...

The PSR specifically has to have drug or alcohol abuse or dependency detailed within twelve months of the crime; not necessarily a psychologist's recommendation. You will have a meeting with the psychology department, the interviewer will have you PSR and will know whether you are within the guidelines to get in. They will get your application in, they send it to Beaumont TX for approval. If you are approved, you will go to the RDAP wait list until you get...

There are a number of things in your post that raise concerns. Rushing to get married is troubling in our eyes and since you don't have along history, she is somewhere where hiding things from you is easy. You cannot find out how much money is on her books, who is on her visitation or calling list. Inmates become professional liars, conning loved ones into sending more and more money. Lots of things go on inside from drugs, to gambling,...

Six moves in seven months is not normal institutional movement and the pattern you are describing points toward something specific that happens in the system and does not get talked about much outside of it. When an inmate has multiple charges pending in different counties, some movement between facilities is expected for court appearances and arraignments. Each jurisdiction needs the person physically present for certain proceedings and transport between county jails to accommodate those appearances is a legitimate part of the...

Fort Dix is one of the largest federal correctional complexes in the country and it operates both a low security facility and a minimum security satellite camp on the same grounds. Understanding how the assignment process works before you arrive takes a lot of the uncertainty out of what is already a stressful experience. When you surrender, you will be processed through the intake area, which is located in the low security facility. Everyone goes through this initial processing regardless of...