InmateAid is a service that lets you send letters, postcards, photos, and greeting cards to an inmate online without having to print, stamp, or mail anything yourself. You compose or upload what you want to send, InmateAid handles the printing and mailing, and everything goes out through the United States Postal Service. From the time you place your order, expect the mail to reach the facility's mailroom in two to three days. That is standard USPS transit time and applies across...

Collect calls from jail rarely work on cell phones, and most carriers have moved away from supporting them entirely. The fix is straightforward: set up a prepaid account with whatever phone carrier the jail uses. Every county jail contracts with a phone service provider, typically a company like Securus, GTL, ICSolutions, or Telmate. That carrier manages all calls made from the facility. To receive calls without the collect call barrier, you need to create an account directly with that carrier and...

The most common reason is a consecutive sentence. When a judge signs a Judgment and Commitment order that includes multiple sentences running one after another rather than simultaneously, the second sentence does not start until the first one is completely finished. If your person was wrapping up a federal or county bid at MCRP and has an unresolved state sentence sitting behind it, the state can pick him up the moment he is released from the first facility, sometimes before...

A transfer this close to a release date is unusual but it does happen, and the reason behind it tells you almost everything about whether it is good news or bad. The more positive explanation is a step-down transfer. As an inmate approaches release, some DOC systems move them to a facility that is better positioned to facilitate reentry, whether that is closer to their home community, better equipped with transition programming, or structured specifically for inmates in the final phase...