It's not fair, but prison is not there for fairness, it is there for the housing of inmates until their sentence is served under rules that we on the outside can't imagine.  Visitation is considered a privilege, not a right - and when they take it away it is usually for some sort of egregious act from a group of inmates. The rules that are imposed are not to punish the visitors, they are there to keep the order and control the acts

Inmate transfers are not publicized for security reasons. You will have to wait until his new designation is published on the BOP website. Once he has landed at his new location he will be able to resume contact with you.

Absolutely! We have many international members that use the letter and photo service to communicate with their inmate. The service is faster, more reliable, convenient and a lot less money than international mail. What's more, your inmate can write you back through the InmateAid Response Mail service - your inmates writes you through our address, we scan their letter into your account and notify you that it's there for your review.

Convicted child molesters are called CHO-MOEs by the other inmates. Child molestation is at the top of the "hate list" for inmates along with "snitches" and could be targeted for beatings by groups of bully inmates. We do not know why there is more of a stigma for that versus rape or murder but it is.  The prison system is keenly aware and have established some prisons that are for sex criminals only, here is a list of the 10

Money sent through Western Union is normally posted within a couple of hours. Depending on the system at the prison/jail, inmates may access their account on the telephone or their counselor hands them a receipt of deposit with the amount and the sender.

When Securus is the company with the contract for all inmate outbound calling and to tape record the calls, you have to look carefully at the per-call price because they are doing things differently than the other prison phone carriers..  Securus has a rate calculator on their site and we use it to get you the BEST number for inmate calling - and now the local number isn't always your best option.  Regardless, you have to use them to receive calls. The

That is not a good sign. The fire camp is a good detail for inmates as they get to be outside and do a normal-type job. Getting transferred to the Centinela State Prison, where they provide for the confinement of General Population, Level I, Level III inmates, Level III sensitive needs and maximum security (Level IV) inmates would tell us that he might have lost his custody level due to some violation of rules. 

Inmates cannot accept incoming calls, they have to initiate the call. Local calls are the cheapest - long distance and collect calls can run $15 for 15 minutes, people use InmateAid's Discount Phone Service to get local numbers making the calls from the jail at the cheapest rate.

Inmate mail is delivered Monday through Friday only

Fights happen in prison just like they happen on the outside. People that tend to snap at little things are always going to be in the middle of fights, especially in higher security prisons where the inmates do not take to disrespect or shows of fear lightly. Inmates involved in fights are often times thrown in the SHU for months at a time. If there are bad injuries to one or more of the inmates, the punishment could be more time