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Subject: Inmate phone calls

The honest answer is that the provider matters less than the number, and the number matters because of how the BOP prices calls. Local calls in the federal system run $0.06 per minute. Long-distance calls run $0.21 per minute. That $0.15 per minute difference is where the money goes, and if your inmate is on the phone regularly, it goes fast. Three hundred minutes at long-distance rates costs $63. Three hundred minutes at the local rate costs $18. Same

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Subject: Inmateaid website questions

InmateAid cannot disclose who created a specific inmate profile, and that policy applies without exception regardless of the circumstances. Inmate profiles on InmateAid come from two sources. The first is the platform's automated database, which pulls publicly available inmate information from correctional systems across the country and incorporates it into the site. The second is individual users who create profiles manually when setting up their accounts to send letters, photos, or other services. Because inmate information is drawn

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Subject: General prison questions-terminology

Not through any outside channel, and that is by design. Inmates retain a degree of privacy in their communications that most people on the outside do not expect. You cannot call the facility and ask for a list of who your person has been talking to. The phone carrier will not share call logs with you. No portal lets a family member or friend pull up a contact history. What the facility does monitor is a different matter.

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Subject: Send books and magazines

the usual time for magazine subscriptions to get the first issue delivered is about 8-12 weeks depending on the publisher

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Subject: Relationship issues

That is not a question anyone outside your relationship can answer for you, and anyone who tells you otherwise is not being straight with you. You know this person. You know whether his words have matched his actions before. You know whether this is the first time you are hearing something like this or the third. You know what his track record looks like when things were easy, before consequences arrived and made honesty feel like the smarter play.

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Subject: Relationship issues

sometimes there is a feeling of helplessness. other times t is something else. by pushing you away, they are testing you to see if you'll come back. it is a sort of manipulation that an inmate gets very good at. it's like transferring guilt. you have to try and convince them that you are "ride or die".

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Subject: Inmate phone calls

sometimes we cannot save you money so the transaction is refunded and an email explanation is sent to help you get set up properly.

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Subject: Survive prison

no, they must abide by whatever rules are where they are being held. federal prisoners are in county jail mainly because they are testifying in some case in that jurisdiction.

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Subject: Clemency - pardons

it takes months to hear back... and it's a real long shot

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Subject: Parole & probation

The honest answer is that it depends almost entirely on what she did with those two years inside, and you probably already know the answer better than you think. Parole boards are not complicated in what they look for. They want to see that an inmate followed the rules, stayed out of disciplinary trouble, and engaged with whatever programming her counselor recommended. Substance abuse treatment, educational courses, vocational training, anger management, whatever was on her program plan, completion of

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