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Subject: General prison questions-terminology

Booking is not a quick process and the jail runs it at whatever pace the staff and the system allow. After an arrest, the person is transported to the facility, and then the processing begins: identity verification, fingerprinting, photographing, entering charges into the system, searching for outstanding warrants in other jurisdictions, health screening, property inventory, and classification. Each step takes time and they happen in sequence. Busy days, shift changes, high intake volume, or situations where multiple warrants need

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Subject: Visitation

We are not 100% on the additional rules for handling overcrowding at Three Lakes Conservative Camp's visitation. We encourage you to call the facility to be sure - 702-879-5475

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Subject: Relationship issues

You're asking a former inmate how to stop another inmate from contacting your girlfriend?? First, we don't snitch and second, you don't sound strong enough to keep her. The inmate already won.

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Subject: Visitation

Yes, both you and your one-year-old can visit. Being married is not a requirement for visitation at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles. For you, the process involves submitting a visitation application to the facility and completing a background check. MDC Los Angeles is a federal facility operated by the Bureau of Prisons, and the BOP requires all prospective visitors to be approved before visiting. Once approved your name goes on the inmate's approved visitor list and you

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Subject: Relationship issues

You can't get that information from the prison. The inmates have a right to privacy and their visitation list, phone list, commissary contributors are kept confidential. If you know she has in the past, your suspicions are probably correct.

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Subject: Relationship issues

we know that the inmates love getting mail. if your inmate is new to the system, they might not be totally settled or maybe they are in their feelings at the moment. We would recommend that you continue writing if you are able.

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Subject: Inmate transfer

When a sentenced inmate serving time at a state prison gets pulled back to a county jail, there is almost always a court-related reason behind it. The Georgia Department of Corrections does not move inmates out of their designated facility without cause, and a transfer back to Fayette County specifically points to something happening in that county's court system. There are two common explanations. The first is a new charge. If something has come to light, whether a crime

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Subject: After prison challenges & services

Not likely, a four year sentence sounds like a state crime so they would be transferred to a state facility.

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Subject: Send books and magazines

The subscription does not go to waste. If your inmate is released before the subscription period ends, the remaining issues simply follow them to their new address on the outside. All you need to do is email aid@inmateaid.com with the updated address once he is home or has a confirmed address where he will be living. InmateAid will update the delivery address with the publisher and the remaining issues will be rerouted accordingly. He will not miss a single

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Subject: Send inmate mail

Yes. InmateAid postcards are accepted at every facility in the country, including the Blount County Detention Facility in Tennessee. Every jail and prison in the United States is required to accept mail delivered through the United States Postal Service, and that is exactly how InmateAid postcards are sent. They go out pre-stamped, printed on approved stock, and arrive through USPS just like any other piece of mail. Mailroom staff at facilities across the country recognize InmateAid envelopes and postcards,

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