We applaud your efforts. We can avow 100% that each and every letter she receives will make her day. You have good instinct asking about how much happiness you want to share for fear of bumming them out. You have to know the person. We have always liked the super-positive, optimistic letters that speak of hope and encouragement about the future. Promote good times to come and give them some incentive to try some new areas of educating themselves. Promote

We do not know which facility you are referring to but there are no cell phones allowed in ANY penal facility. It is a new federal law that if they are found, the offender faces up to five additional years.

we do not have selection advice. the site is not engineered perfect for what you are trying to do. you can find an inmate through the news or research that you find interesting or more and then set up an Inmate Profile on our site (or have us do it for you) and them you can start communicating from anywhere, anytime. people often write famous inmates like OJ Simpson, Aaron Hernandez, Jodi Arias and many others.

yes, the last name of the person making the deposit

NO, none of those electronic devices are allowed inside.

Yes, after they have attended orientation

Yes they can. It is also possible that they might consider a short-time inmate for an early release if they're too crowded - and your offender has been well-behaved

There is a 15% good time credit that inmates begin their sentence with. Anything earlier would be very unusual.

Yes. Inmates that have money on their inmate trust accounts can purchase stamps and envelopes at the weekly commissary. If they do not have money on their books, the prison will provide indigent inmates with all the materials necessary to send out mail to their loved ones. If your inmate writes to you directly, using your address, the cost of the mailing is a 49 cent stamp. Many of our members use the Inmate Response Mail service through InmateAid.

This depends on the facility and the carrier. There are about 30 companies providing inmate calling from their facility. Only one of the companies works like you describe in your question. The industry is hard to follow as some of the carriers are charging higher rates for local calls than they are for long distance. Our recommendation is to send us your telephone number and the name of the institution, we will give you an honest estimate of the savings