We will try and find it for you. What is their name and DOB if you have it. What facility are they in if you know, and if not what state are they in?

Inmate Debit Account: Accounts are set up and funded through Inmate Banking Services. Inmates can use money in their inmate banking account to purchase debit calling time through the Inmate Store instead of setting up an account with IC Solutions.

Include the inmate's name, their ID number and mailing address of the facility.

You have to find out the money transfer company they use if you want to expedite the transaction. You can always send a money order too, but that is a slower process. What facility is your inmate in, we'll try to help?

The inmate will let you know. These letters are not like registered mail where someone signs for it. They are mailed into the facility and inspected by the staff. After they have decided that the mail is ready to be handed out to the inmates, they distribute it at "mail call". If the mail is rejected for any reason and is returned, we will investigate the reason and let you know possible remedies.

Our best advice is to call the facility chaplain and ask if this is available to the inmates and if so what the rules are.

The phone service at all the prisons, jails and detention centers are set up through bid process. The winner of the contract is the ONLY provider for that facility making them a monopoly - Telmate in this case. Therefore you have to use them to receive calls. The choice is whether you pay them for a long distance call or a local call (to a number we get for you). Here is how it works... We get you

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NO, once the postcard is completed, it is automatically and immediately processed by a third-party. We have no way of stopping it from being mailed once it is paid for.

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