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Subject: Relationship issues

This is one of the hardest places to be, and nobody can make this decision for you. That is not a dodge, it is just the truth. When multiple people in your life, people who have direct experience with him, are telling you the same thing, that is worth sitting with seriously. They are not all wrong and they are not all coming from a bad place. People who have been on the receiving end of how someone treats

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Subject: Relationship issues

There are a few possible explanations here, and not all of them are about you or the relationship. The most common institutional reason is a facility lockdown. When a lockdown is called, all visits are suspended across the board, sometimes for days at a time. The inmate does not cancel individually in that situation, the facility cancels everything, and communication during a lockdown is often restricted as well, which is why you may not be hearing an explanation from

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Subject: Halfway house

Halfway houses operate differently from prisons and jails, and the communication rules vary from one facility to the next. The quickest way to figure out what is allowed is to call the halfway house directly and ask to speak with a counselor. The counselor can walk you through how residents are permitted to receive calls, whether there are designated phone times, and whether your brother needs to add you to an approved contact list before any communication can happen.

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Subject: Arrest record search

The Clerk of the Court in the county where the charges were filed

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Subject: Inmate phone calls

the only way is to write them a letter... tell them how you feel, remind them of your telephone number and see "if you can help by paying for the phone time".

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Subject: Family services

Yes, they use the InmateAid office address - the mail comes in and is scanned and placed into your My Account Dashboard. This serves to protect the user on several fronts. If you mail into the prison/jail with a return address, and you want your inmate to know your address, it's best to put it in the body of the letter and not the return address. Other inmates use that sort of detail to extort, blackmail or otherwise menace good folks

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Subject: Survive prison

It's impossible if you are close to the ones you love. For me, it felt like I died but I had to watch them go on living without me. It was sad...

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Subject: Bail & bond questions

Usually not. it would have to be a very slight violation. Magistrates HATE seeing an offender violate in any way... makes them think the person that got an early release really didn't deserve it. 

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Subject: Release questions

Your buddy is probably being optimistic, and that optimism may not be grounded in how judges actually look at this situation. Catching new felony charges while already serving time or on supervised release is about the worst signal you can send to a court. The existing sentence was already a message that the system sent once. New charges, while on paper, tell a judge that the message did not land. Courts do not respond well to that, and the

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Subject: Parole, probation & supervised release

He would have to have a suitable residence and job awaiting him outside of Arkansas if he wants to do his parole time out-of-state.

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