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Inmates are allowed to receive paperback books a the Bristol County MA Jail & House of Correction as long as they are delivered by a publisher like Amazon. Amazon is one of the only companies that may deliver books to inmates. You have to enter the inmate's name, ID number and the correct address of the facility. You have to buy "new paperback books", the used books are sold by third party affiliates and those books will get rejected. There...

Inmates that are incarcerated for a long period become institutionalized. They get used to having no responsibility, they are fed, housed and generally don't have to take care of themselves. They are told when to wake, when to sleep, when to eat, etc. The controlling of one's routine sometimes removes the desire of a person to get back into society and cope. If there were more programs that focused on the inmate's reentry, focused on the vocational aspect of their...

InmateAid's letter service runs through the US Postal Service, not the internet. Your friend does not need to know about the program or sign up for anything. He does not receive an email or a notification. He simply gets a physical letter delivered through normal mail call, the same as any letter sent from home. There is nothing for him to do on his end to receive it. As for the timeline, letters typically take 2 to 3 business days to...

Our service is not a replacement for the phone service at the jail/prison/detention center. Our service makes theirs less expensive by using a phone number that is either local to the facility or some other area code that we are sure will reduce the call price. Your inmate dials this number we've provided and it will ring on your current phone. You will need to register the number with phone service (just like you would your long distance number without...

It would appear that you've answered your own question. If he is getting released in four months and he can't add a Malvern number to his call list, then there would not seem to be any benefit. The flip side is that the call price differential is about $4.00 per call. We have a high density of users of the InmateAid Discount telephone service in The Omega Technical Violator Center and have not heard of the difficulty adding a number to...

Inmates do NOT have access to the Internet. There are no computers to the outside world. There are however some email programs in various places like federal prison where the inmate can pay-per-minute to send and read emails. It is on about a 2-hour delay and is very expensive but it does work well. Inmates are strictly prohibited from the use of a cellphone. Cellphones are considered dangerous contraband and carry a punishment of up to an extra five years in...

We might be able to make the calls cheaper, it works most of the time. But, please be mindful that we are not a replacement for the prison telephone service, we find you a telephone number that will make their calls cheaper (through that system). The phone service at the Scioto County Jail is set up through a bid process. Securus has the contract for all inmate outbound calling and to tape record the calls. Therefore, you have to use them...

A situation like this almost always has more to it than what has been shared with you. Inmates rarely have no knowledge of their release date, and a two-year discrepancy between what a court said and what the facility's system shows typically has an explanation rooted in something the inmate has not fully disclosed. A few things that could account for this gap. A detainer or hold from another jurisdiction. If your son has an outstanding warrant, charge, or detainer from another...

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 of our members use the Inmate Response Mail service through InmateAid. Your inmate would write you back to the...