The inmate writes to you using our address - some people love not having to use their own address if they choose not to. We receive the letters (up to 6 pages) on your behalf and scan them into your account and send you an email notification that it's there.

The Secure Housing Unit (SHU) is segregated housing and it is used for disciplinary or administrative reasons. When an inmate is in PC or Protective Custody for their own safety, this is where they go to be secure from danger. Unfortunately it’s a miserable existence.

You can write him through InmateAid, the letters will get there in one day as we are headquartered in Palm Beach County Florida only one county away from Broward County where he is locked up. You can send him magazines or books - with his situation, he is completely walled off from contact with other inmates. I've been in soitary and it is no joke. Reading was my only escape.  There are other enlightenment opportunites down the road through college correspondence courses, but that

His belongings are boxed up and kept in storage. If you didn't show up they would be there when he got released. They want people to collect the goods to keep from having an overload of stored boxes for inmates. There are other instances where the facility (federal) will ship the property to the inmates home address.

Malcolm Galdwell books, "Tipping Point", "Outliers" and "Blink" are recommended for business philosopy-type reading. For fiction reading, i like the authors Stuart Woods, Vince Flynn, Harlen Coben, Lee Child, John Grisham, Daniel Silva, Michael Lewis and Sandra Brown. There are tons of titles for these authors. The prison/jail rules require buying paperback books from the publisher like Amazon, don't try and send them yourself,they will definitely get returned.

You can call the Clerk of the Court of the county where the case was tried. 

He will definitely get credit for the six months he did in county. He probably has to do 85% of the sentence (assuming he stays out of trouble and remains incident-report free). That would be 25.5 months. What jurisdiction did he get sentenced in? Where did you see the release date (that might not have figured in the good time as of that listing)? 

This sounds like a state inmate that has been transferred to a contract prison in another state due to several possible reasons. One is overcrowding, the other could be if he has a codefendant in the same prison (they separate them), third could be disciplinary, it could also be that they have a court date and need to be within a reasonable distance from the courthouse.

No, in-person visits only. Please go to https://www.inmateaid.com/visitation/rankin-county-ms-jail for the exact times and days.

We don't know the facts, but it sounds like he did something to jeopardize his release date. You can call the facility and ask to speak to the counselor, if you are a close relative they might confide in you.