Subject: Send inmate mail
To send books from Amazon to an inmate at SCI Pine Grove, you will enter the inmate’s information as the shipping address during checkout.
Here is how to do it step by step:
Add the book(s) you want to purchase to your cart
Go to checkout
Under “Shipping Address,” select Add a new address
Enter the inmate’s information in this format:
Inmate’s full name and ID number (on the name line)
Facility name
Facility mailing address
Select Ship to this address and complete your order
A few important tips:
Make sure the name and ID number match...
Read moreSubject: Visitation
This is a situation that requires careful consideration before taking any action and we want to give you a genuinely useful answer rather than simply telling you to consult an attorney and leaving you with nothing.
The legal picture
If the protection order has been formally lifted or expired you are generally not legally prohibited from contact. However domestic violence cases often involve conditions attached to the defendant's bond, plea agreement, or pretrial release that may restrict contact with the victim regardless...
Read moreSubject: Visitation
In most city and county jails, inmates are allowed to update their approved visitor list, but it is not always immediate and must follow the facility’s process.
Your boyfriend can usually request to add or remove people from his list by submitting a form or making the change through his counselor or classification officer. Some facilities allow updates regularly, while others only allow changes during certain time periods.
If someone is not on the approved list, they will not be allowed to visit,...
Read moreSubject: Send inmate mail
You are not allowed to receive communication from ANY felon. There are exceptions that must be granted with permission by both facilities. Those cases are when the inmates are related.
Subject: Inmate phone calls
Phones are usually turned on at 6am and are turned off at 9:30pm. There may also be times during the day where there is no access to them - the rules inside every facility change without notice and the inmates have to deal with the inconsistencies.
Subject: Send inmate mail
Generally, it takes 1-2 days to be received by
the prison. The prison staff inspects each piece of mail for contraband which
sometimes delays actual delivery to the inmate at mail call. Inmates have “mail
call” Monday through Friday and are notified of incoming mail during that time.
Subject: Send inmate mail
InmateAid has a service that allows inmates to write a member through the site. Some members would like to write inmates but keep their address confidential. This service works for members who would like a pen pal relationship without having to disclose where they live. The service cost $1.49 to retrieve the letter from you account.
Subject: Visitation
The visitation for juvenile facilities is strict
and might be limited to family members only. There are other
restrictions that come in play depending upon the offense level of the person
you are wishing to visit
Subject: Send inmate mail
What you are running into is a common mailroom rule that is not always clearly explained. Many facilities reject photos that are printed on regular paper, even if they are not actually “scanned” in the way you are thinking.
When a prison says “no scanned photos,” they are often using that as a catch-all term for images that are:
Printed on standard printer paper
Pulled from the internet and printed at home
Not on true photo-quality paper
Mailrooms prefer or require actual photo prints because they are...
Read moreSubject: Commissary
There is no publicly available, regularly updated commissary price list for the Arizona Department of Corrections. Most state systems, including Arizona, do not publish detailed pricing online, even though they may list available items.
That said, commissary pricing is fairly consistent across facilities because most prisons purchase from the same limited group of vendors. Looking at federal commissary lists can give you a very close estimate of what things cost.
Here is a realistic pricing range to help you budget:
Ramen and basic food...
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