Ask the Inmate | Sentencing Questions

Subject: Sentencing questions

my bf has tampering with evidence (felony since its his third one, he threw marijuana out the car), theft and criminal mischief. the criminal mischief got him 30-45 days in county, and they gave him 8 months state jail for theft and 4 years for the tampering. by the time he leaves county he'll have 8 months total back time, and the state and tdcj time run concurrent. what do you think he'll end up doing?

The TDCJ sentence of four years will be 85% of 48 months. The total time to service with ZERO incident reports would be 40.8 months. If he serves 8 months in county, he will have 32.8 months remaining at his TDCJ facility

Subject: Send books and magazines

How am I able to send him books in prison?

[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_lc?node=283155&tag=inmatecom-20&camp=15329&creative=394453&linkCode=ur1&adid=1K72TCDN6922Z9EZX1M8&&ref-refURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.inmateaid.com%2Fpages%2Fdetails%2Fsend-books-to-an-inmate-in-prison-or-jail) is one of the only approved ways to send an inmate a book. 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 sell used books.

Subject: Inmate phone calls

Does this work for Bucks County Correctional Facility

Yes

Subject: Send inmate mail

I want to make a child smile. Is there a way that I can be connected with an inmate and become a pin pal for a child in a detention center?

we do not have juvenile inmates listed for pen pals

Subject: Inmate phone calls

I added money to an account but he is not able to call on it yet. How long does it take for the money to be used for the inmate to call the number i added?

Usually immediately, if not within a few hours

Subject: Survive prison

Does the jail provide Chapel services? If so, is it available in Spanish?

Yes to both

Subject: Release questions

My wife was arrested lastvweek for not paying her supervision fees so if I pay those fees up to date will that help her in court

Yes, that will obviate the charge which is "contempt of court" since there are no debtor's prisons.

Subject: Commissary

what federal prisons can the imates purchase those tablets to where they can download music check emails etc. also what federal prisons are able to allow inmates to do the video visitation where loved ones can sit at home when unable to go visit them, how much does it cost. been told it costs $10-15 per 30 minutes and you have to be on their vistor list in order to do so. please help me is this true what is the process to do this

We are not 100% sure about the level this tablet pilot program is. We know that it's experimental but not available everywhere. There is no video visitation that we know of in federal. The email program is called Corrlinks, it is available at all institution in the BOP. It is a "closed email environment", where the email are on a 2-3 hour delay as they are screened for content.

Subject: Sentencing questions

my stepson in December,2012 was arrested in iowa for Count l & ll: delivery of a schedule II controlled substance (Meth) both class c felonies and count lll: delivery of Marijuana. On july 2013 he took a plea of having counts II & III dropped. plead guilty to the count I his prison sentence of 10 years fully suspended placed on probation for 3 years ewith random ua etc. and be placed for 180 days at a residential facility pay fines. he sucessfully completed his 180 days. was doing great until 2015. on november 2015 he went to move a friends car from street in town to our place and was arrested for driving without license, no insurance, Possesion of marijuana 2 offence, poss of Meth 2 offence, and taking/failure tio report contraband in jail(that charge he said he was searched 4 times 2 of them before they took him to jail and the other 2 at jail) he got chrged with that during he was in his cell in jail. on december of 2015 he was arrested for delivery of meth(in cerro gordo county) and he would been off probation on july 15,2016. he was told that his case going federal, so from dec 1,2015 to now he was in county jail. he is now being charged in federal with 1 count of Conspiracy to distribute (delivery) of meth 5 or more grams of pure Meth: US code 21 841(a), US code 21 841(b)(1)(B) and US code 21 846. his state charges(his floyd county charges for 11-4-2015, his cerro gordo charge to which he sold to an informant on oct 21,2015 including his probation Revoke still havent been dropped from what i see on the iowa courts website. when will the state charges be dropped being now his is going federal he was looking looking at 25-life in federal prison now 10-20years to which he apparently took some plea deal he told us 10-15 but his federal lawyer was asking 5-10 years due to health issues of his father who has seizures now suffering some memory loss and his little brother(12yrs old) has Wilson's Disease no cure for this disease for which his little brother is in stage 2 of the 4 stages of liver failure severe scarring to liver and his medication alone for this disease is $21,250 per month of 100 pills. he would help me at home with his dad like lifting him from floor when he has seizures, staying with his little brother when i run errands when his dad would be bed for being to drained from seizures and sleep. how much time will he actually do, will he be close to home like in oxford wisconsin, sandstone minnesota, yankton south dakota

We thank you for sharing your information, you've got a lot going on. The lawyer that is handling his plea agreement would know what the negotiation range is. On it's face, 25 to life seems high unless there is more to his criminal history than this. If he is considered a low-risk inmate, he could do time in the camp which is not hard time. It's just dealing with a lot of boredom. Good luck

Subject: Sentencing questions

My bf was arrested while on parole for meth charges again. How much time will he likely do? Was 3 months left on parole.

At least three months, unless they decided to hit him with new charges

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