Inmate name, Inmate ID number Hudson County Correctional Center (HCCC) 30-35 South Hackensack Ave. Kearny, NJ 07032-4690

Please explain - Put on probation in 2012, been locked up since 2014 - time served since 2012 ??  This does not make sense to us - clearly he is not getting time served as he is still incarcerated. If he really got time-served he would not be incarcerated. Based on what we know, if your inmate has a release date of 8-29-2016 - "good time" credits earned in most cases is about 10-15% available without any incident reports.  A

Yes. Registered InmateAid members can use the InmateAid address as their return address on handwritten letters sent directly from home. You are not required to use the platform to type and send every letter to take advantage of the privacy the address provides.

The typical guideline to follow is that most sentences come with built-in "good-time credits".  This is normally 15% of the total. Assuming this is available to you, 85% of 120 months is 102 months. Then there is halfway house (if available) which might carve another 3-9 months off the sentence. Be mindful that the halfway house is still a form of incarceration but reserved for inmates with no conduct problems or incident reports.  

He will most likely not get the mail, most institutions will not forward the mail to transferred inmates. If you send us an email to aid@inmateaid.com with the new location, we will make the change in the inmate profile and resend the letter for you at no charge.

That is actually a better sentence than one year (the judge did him a small favor). Any federal sentence over one year qualifies for "good time credit". Good time is 15% of the sentence which is granted upon arrival. This is the best he will do, he can only lose this good time by getting into trouble while there. He will do 311 days and then deal with whatever supervised release time that was on his sentence.

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 inmate

Serving legal papers to an inmate is a routine process and prisons are set up to handle it. Here is how it works. Most correctional facilities have a notary public on staff. If your husband is willing to sign a waiver of summons, that waiver can be notarized right there at the facility. He would be called to the administrative offices by the unit secretary to accept service and sign any required documents. You do not need a court

It depends on the level of custody the prison where your cousin is headed as the higher security has longer term sentences with inmates who have little to lose when they fight. However, the conduct inside a prison is nothing like what you see on television. But, fights could occur in any level prison or jail if there are conflicts. The same could happen on a street corner, a restaurant or a store. The likelihood of altercations will depend on

We have answered this questions many ways in previous questions. It depends on what survival means to the specific inmate.  Prison is what you make of it. It can serve as a beneficial learning experience or it can be a living hell. Every inmate has a choice. An inmate can survive prison by simply following prison administration rules and respecting both officers and fellow prisoners. Offenders can make life harder on themselves by refusing to follow the direct orders of