You would login to your My Account area. Click on Discount Telephone, then click on Add Local line. Then include the State, Facility, Your Telephone Number and select the plan either Monthly or Quarterly. The next screen you will see is the breakdown of what you are paying for. Then click to the next screen which is a checkout page where you enter your credit/debit card information. After your payment goes through it will immediately email your receipt of purchase.

The facility will not notify you, your inmate gets the approvals so you will have to get your information from him

Yes, in fact it is a requirement for ALL inmates without a high school diploma to take courses that will lead to them getting their GED before they are released.

Dead time is time spent institutionalized that does not count as credit toward the defendant's sentence. An example would be time spent confined in a mental hospital while the defendant is being restored to competency to stand trial. Halfway house time pending sentencing can also sometimes be dead time. In the U.S., federal law provides that a defendant shall be given credit toward the service of a term of imprisonment for any time he has spent in official detention

In most cases, they will be required to do 85% of the sentence. That is about 30.6 months.

Probation violation / domestic violence charge could send him back to prison for the remainder of his term to fulfill the time he was granted in his probation. Plus, a new charge with violence might add considerable time as he is a repeat offender. The sentencing judges do not like to see an "old face" before them when there was some leniency granted the first time. The sentence for domestic violence could be ten years or more. If he went

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

Please send us your inmate's information (name and DOB) and we will set it up for you. Once it is completed we will notify you that it is ready for use.

This is not unusual. You are questioning yourself but if what you say is true, there is no excuse for him not writing you. The SHU is mostly 24 hour/day lockdown, PLUS the SHU inmates get writing material AND stamps if they ask. You are going to have a rocky nine year stretch with this emotional toil of second-guessing. You have some tough decisions ahead. Whatever you do, make sure you think it through and don't do anything in anger.

The state intake process is a bit lengthy as they go through several staff interviews that range from medical, psychological to educational assessment and work/job profiling. Once they are settled into a routine, the communication between you two will improve and be more often. A three year sentence requires that 85% of be served. The 15% is considered good time and is given to all inmate upon arrival. An inmate can only lose good time by getting incident reports.