The visits are very comfortable "contact visits". You will be able to hug and hold hands as long as it does not become disrespectful to the other visitors or the guards.

Call the Clerk of the Court in the county they are being held. They will have all of the documents pertaining to their case and any and all court filings, including a trial or sentence

Folks on the outside cannot request or make anything happen on the inside. Inmates with a clean conduct record and that show a willingness to follow recommended programming will get asked to join the work release program.

The inmate information is not monitored or maintained by the site. We will do so upon request, feel free to share those changes with us via email and we will notify you when it's updated.

It is our understanding that the early release programs are not qualifying most violent offenders.The law is new and there are no cases to point to, but they define the "violent offender" in the language. An inmate will have to petition the court for a resentencing to even get considered for an early release. The sheer risk of having a violent crime happen by someone released on their watch is not going to get much of a chance with this law. You can always

Probably not. Inmate marriage is usually reserved for long-term offenders. The county jails are not equiped to handle an inmate wedding.

Inmates shop at the commissary normally once per week. You can place money on their boks using the various inmate money transfer companies. There is either a weekly or monthly maximum spend limit ($75/wk - $340/mo). You cannot normally shop for them unless the facility has an arrangement with a vendor that sells commissary baskets. You would have to check with the exact facility to see if they have a company for you to contact.

There is nothing easy about incarceration - for them or for you. Separation is painful but time tends to heal the wounds. Depending upon the crime, the length of the sentence and financial situation weighs accordingly. If you are strong and want to help your inmate get through this in the most comfortable fashion, InmateAid has all of the services that will make that possible. Although we encourage you to engage and remain connected, we also caution you to not

All correspondence sent to the inmates has the InmateAid corporate address on it. We do not share your information whatsoever. Inmates do write back to our members via the Letters from Inmates service. The letters are received here and we scan them into your My Account area and then notify you by email that you have inmate mail. The cost to retrieve the letter is $1.49. If you include your address in the letter then the inmate would probably correspond

The parole threshold dates are set by the judge in his Judgment and Commitment Order. If the inmate has already served 80% of their sentence, there were either no parole opportunities offered or they were denied. We know that the states offer 15% good time and if your inmate does indeed have a clean record, he might be within a year of being released to a halfway house. Of course, we are guessing because we do not have the benefit