The jail is rated for 630 inmates/detainees and employs a staff of approximately 120. The local population averages 275-325 inmates/detainees. We do not have a current population number to report.

You should call a realtor that lists other homes in your neighborhood. They will help you decide on a price to list it for, since they know the market.

You can write him through InmateAid, the letters will get there in one day as we are headquartered in Palm Beach County Florida only one county away from Broward County where he is locked up. You can send him magazines or books - with his situation, he is completely walled off from contact with other inmates. I've been in soitary and it is no joke. Reading was my only escape.  There are other enlightenment opportunites down the road through college correspondence courses, but that

There are no phone or power outages in ANY federal prison. They maintain their own power source if that were to happen to the electricity grid. There are many safeguards to protect the public from a federal prison losing power... all the gates, the cells, the pods are on electrical controls - they can't have an outage of any kind.

This depends on their situation. If they have no money on their commissary, then it is money so they can buy the little extras. If it is phone time that they lack, then it's phone minutes. If they have those two and you are talking about buying them things, we highly recommend magazine subscriptions or books if they like to read.

Sometimes, the orientation period if different depending on when you arrive. If A & O is done every Wednesday, like the federal facilities, and you get there on Tuewday, you wait one day, if you get there on a Wednesday, you'll have to wait a week.

The process of getting yourself back together begins with questions like this. We are happy to help in any way possible with advice or mentoring. My favorite saying is, "show me your friends and I'll show you your future". My guess is that the people you are hanging around with are the main part of the problem. No one 15 years old is inherently bad on the inside, it is circumstance, opportunity and then acting on something without considering the

I was in federal, county and a private facility and there were female guards in all three places. It was uncomfortable in the maximum security setting as they oversaw the pod area, we had to shower in the open, right in front of their control room window. 

You will need to contact the inmate's counselor and tell them the situation. You will then be able to send the un-signed check to the facility where they will have your inmate endorse the check to be deposited in their commisary/phone account.

Inmates benefit greatly from all the services inmateAID provides. Getting released...it feels unbelieveable, better than sex... until you have that again for the first time :))