The letter and photo service from InmateAid is straightforward. You create a User account and then an Inmate Profile - you then type up your letter and upload photos from your smartphone, go to the Pay Now page and complete the transaction. Letters are processed immediately upon entry unless it is after 4pm on Saturday, then the letters do not go through the process until Monday morning. You may check in your My Account area to see the status

NO. Inmates know they are not allowed to possess them, yet many feel that the risk of getting caught is worth the ability to talk as often as they want without having the guards listen in. Inmates that get caught face new charges.

Depending on his housing situation, the typical phone times are 6am - 9:30pm, but this is for general population. Some inmates have a phone in their cell and can call 24/7.

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 his name, DOB, the state that he is in and we will try and locate him and create a profile for you to keep in contact with.

Yes, you have to use the Val Verde address[Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_lc?node=283155&tag=inmatecom-20&camp=15329&creative=394453&linkCode=ur1&adid=1NK4T3Z8XDKYJ0S12D53&&ref-refURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.inmateaid.com%2Fpages%2Fdetails%2Fsend-books-to-an-inmate-in-prison-or-jail) is one of the only companies that may deliver books to inmates. You have to enter the inmate's name, ID number and the correct address of the facility. You have to buy "new paperback books", the used books are sold by third party affiliates and those books will get rejected. There are no other tricks to it, other than staying away from the other book sellers on the Amazon site that

He definitely knows the date, what does he say?

No, that "exception" pertains to how a phone service is funded. There are about 30 prison phone companies that fight for the contracts of over ten-thousand facilities. The federal system is self-contained, there are no outside providers. This means that your inmate has money deposted on his TruLinks account (where his money is deposited by Western Union), the inmate moves the money between telephone, commissary and email. The cost of the calls are paid for from these funds,

Should not be too long. It could be a week or more.

Normally a criminal tresspassing can be plead down to a misdemeanor with some community service, but the theft is the problem. The value of what he stole will likely have a major impact on the penalty. If it is over $1000 there might be some time. If he has a criminal history or he has already served some time, the penalty is going to be tougher than it would if this was a first-time offense