Ask The Inmate. Real answers from people who've been there.

You can absolutely send photos directly through USPS on your own. Nothing is stopping you from printing photos and mailing them yourself as long as they meet the facility's requirements for incoming mail. The things to watch for when sending on your own are the photo format, paper type, and content restrictions specific to the facility. Most prisons require actual photo stock rather than regular printer paper, standard sizing like 4 inch by 6 inch prints, no nudity or inappropriate content,...

Fees imposed by county jails vary - but a majority of them charge nothing at all. It could be that he needs to pay a fee, $65 sounds a little high but it's possible. What it could also be is that he wants money for his commissary so that he may shop to buy certain snacks and food stuffs. Either way, it's probably not nefarious and adding a small amount of money on a weekly basis will allow them to...

Post-conviction sentence reduction success is rare. Getting a sentence dropped altogether will never happen, especially when you see a sentence of 103 years... this judge must have been very angry to hand down that time to an eighteen year old. Your friend's best chance is if the judge allowed for a possibility of parole in the Judgement and Commitment papers. If that is available, then he will need to work VERY hard with the staff at the prison to make certain...

Letters are processed immediately upon entry unless after 6pm on Saturday, those letters will process Monday morning. 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...

It is not going to be easy but it definitely can be done. If this is a jail with heavy gang activity like Cook County, Illinois or Los Angeles County, California there might be the need to align with people of your own race. This is more important if you have a long sentence. If 
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You would login to your My Account area. Click on **Discount Telephone**, then click on **Add Local line**. Then include the State, the Facility, Your Telephone Number and then select the plan either Monthly or Quarterly. The next screen you will see is the breakdown of what you are paying for. Then click to the next screen which is a checkout page where you enter your credit/debit card information. After your payment goes through it will immediately email your receipt...

Magazine deliveries to correctional facilities move on a different timeline than standard mail and in progress does not mean something has gone wrong. Here is what actually happens behind the scenes. When a magazine subscription is ordered through InmateAid, the order goes to the publisher who then mails directly to the facility. Publishers operate on their own printing and distribution schedules, which do not always align with what you would expect from a standard online order. A new subscription can take...

First, the 7th violation is going to raise some eyebrows with the court. Someone, somewhere is going to make an example out of her and give her some real time in a real penitentiary. Maybe it is what she needs? Secondly, sneaking drugs into a jail creates a whole new scenario that will be part of the pre-sentence report filed before her ultimate penalty is determined. Introducing contraband is a felony and 30-days in the SHU is not harsh; in fact,...