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Subject: Inmateaid website questions

It means that a User on the website created the inmate profile for their personal use

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Subject: Inmate phone calls

Yes, that is accurate. Processing facilities are the most restrictive environment an inmate will typically encounter in the Georgia system because they are transitional by design. The rules at Piedmont are tighter across the board compared to a regular housing assignment, and the limited phone schedule you described reflects that. Two 15-minute calls on alternating days, with Mondays being a phone blackout, is consistent with what processing centers impose while inmates are being classified and assessed before permanent placement.

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Subject: Send books and magazines

Playboy reverted back to nude photos, there is no nudity allowed in the prison mail. Maxim magazine is a prison favorite, as are the Penthouse Letters.

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Subject: Prison jobs

The jobs ARE inside... someone has to maintain the facility... cleanliness, food, groundskeeping, education, etc... there is plenty of work to do...

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Subject: Inmate transfer

They do not notify anyone before coming and collecting an inmate for transport. All inmate movement is kept confidential for the safety of the transporting guards.

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Subject: Inmate phone calls

When you receive the new number (via email, SMS text, and on the My Account Dashboard), the line is already active and loaded with minutes

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Subject: Sentencing questions

Depending on the length of the sentence (over 12 months) and the bed space available in county, they will probably get moved to a state facility to serve the balance of what time remains

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Subject: Visitation

Physical contact during prison visits is allowed in most facilities but within limits that vary by security level and individual facility policy. The standard in most state and federal prisons is a brief embrace and kiss on arrival and another when the visit ends. That contact is generally accepted across custody levels as long as it is brief and appropriate. Extended physical contact or anything that draws staff attention is where things get cut off. Hand-holding during the

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Subject: Visitation

It depends entirely on the facility and the inmate's custody level. Many prisons and jails do offer contact visits where you sit in the same room as the inmate without any barrier between you. Others use non-contact visitation where you speak through glass or via phone handsets with no physical proximity. Some facilities have moved to video-only visitation, which means you are not in the same room at all. State prisons at lower security levels, federal camps, and minimum-security

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Subject: Inmateaid website questions

If your mailing came through InmateAid, the return address on everything he received is InmateAid's office in South Florida, not your address in Australia. He can write a letter back to that address, and InmateAid will receive it, scan it, and post it to your account so you can read it. The cost to retrieve a return letter is minimal. The process is the same whether you are in the next town or on the other side of the

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