Depending on your bid, you're going to have to search for the "cure for boredom" as it fits you. Reading was my thing, it's partly why this website exists. You have to get yourself into a routine. And not get yourself jammed up in any inmate nonsense. You will make friends and exist partly because of that comradery. But, do NOT and never share tales of your crime, your sentence, any co-defendant with anyone while locked up. "Anything you say

Birth of a child doesnt get an inmate early release. If a woman inmate was having a baby, they wouldn't get released to give birth either.

These are tough decisions that no one can make for you. You have to weigh all of the good and all of the bad and make the hard choice. You already know what to do, but you fear the future and how things will work out in your life. have faith in yourself. Staying in a bad relationship is the opposite.

He might have lost some privileges and didn't cancel on his own, OR, the facility might be on lockdown and all visits are suspended for awhile

Call the halfway house and ask to speak with a counselor. They can best advise you on the ways that communication with your inmate is permissible

The Clerk of the Court in the county where the charges were filed

the only way is to write them a letter... tell them how you feel, remind them of your telephone number and see "if you can help by paying for the phone time".

Yes, they use the InmateAid office address - the mail comes in and is scanned and placed into your My Account Dashboard. This serves to protect the user on several fronts. If you mail into the prison/jail with a return address, and you want your inmate to know your address, it's best to put it in the body of the letter and not the return address. Other inmates use that sort of detail to extort, blackmail or otherwise menace good folks

It's impossible if you are close to the ones you love. For me, it felt like I died but I had to watch them go on living without me. It was sad...

Usually not. it would have to be a very slight violation. Magistrates HATE seeing an offender violate in any way... makes them think the person that got an early release really didn't deserve it.