You can try, and the fact that you are willing to is meaningful. But the honest answer is that if he does not want help, there is very little you or anyone else can do to make treatment happen. Mental health treatment in the prison system, like outside of it, requires the person to voluntarily engage. Someone who is not ready to acknowledge they need help or does not want to participate cannot be forced into a treatment program in
Read moreYes, but understand that there will be other eyes on your message so don't say anything incriminating
Read moreYes, probably for the same reason... usually a felony on your record or something similar will prohibit you from visitation
Read moreNEVER! cellphones are prohibited in ANY penal facility. In fact, if you try to carry one into the intake, they will immediately throw you in the SHU (the hole, solitary confinement) if just for being less than self-aware. Stay away from other inmates that might have smuggled a cell phone in, you will be able to use the public phone with money on your account.
Read moren most cases, sex offenders are neither placed in standard general population nor in traditional protective custody. Virginia, like most state systems, typically houses sex offenders in dedicated special housing units alongside other inmates with similar charges. This serves a dual purpose: it protects them from the hostility they would face in general population, where sex offenders are consistently at the bottom of the inmate social hierarchy, and it addresses the management challenges that come with mixing them into the
Read moreWe are not certain, there are two facilities in Walsenburg, the Huerfano County Detention Center (719) 738-1740 and Huerfano County Correctional Center (719) 738-3246... give them a call to see if they have video visits
Read moreThe magazine subscriptions come directly from the publisher, a rule set by the prisons and jails. Depending on the individual publisher the first issue arrives in about 8-12 weeks and then is repeated month after month until the total amount of issues are delivered. This is similar to any magazine subscription for anyone that takes a subscription postcard from a magazine and mails it to the publisher. If you are still in the "delivery window", have no fear InmateAid has been
Read moreThere is no way to predict that with confidence without knowing more about the specifics, including whether new charges were filed, what the judge said at the last hearing, and what the terms of his supervision looked like. Those details matter a great deal in how the judge is going to read this. What can be said is that missing a court-ordered DV review is a more serious misstep than missing a routine appearance. Domestic violence cases carry heightened
Read moreAn Intermediate Sanction Facility, or ISF, in Texas is itself a form of community supervision, sitting between standard probation and full incarceration. Being placed in an ISF typically means someone violated the terms of their probation and the court responded with a structured residential program rather than sending them to prison. It is a last-chance opportunity to complete supervision requirements in a controlled environment. Because the ISF is already a supervised program rather than a traditional sentence, the concept
Read moreOn a 6-month sentence, good time credit is minimal. If any is applied, it typically comes out to around 15 percent of the sentence, which, over 6 months, amounts to less than a month off. The practical effect is small, and by the time the process of calculating and applying it runs its course, the sentence is nearly finished regardless. Parole in the traditional sense does not really apply to an ISF placement. An Intermediate Sanction Facility is already
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