The lines come to you via email. The prisons will not normally pass along a telephone number to an inmate so you have to get them the new number. InmateAid will give you a coupon to write your inmate and notify them of the new telephone number to use. The savings results vary depending on the prison, your location and the prison telephone system they use. If you want an honest estimate of what the cost of the calls might

You can get a number from us that will reduce the price of his calls to you down to SIX cents per minute. We charge $19.95 per month for the service that will save nearly $100 per month. You click on your My Account area where is says, "Discount Telephone Service". Then add the state: Pennsylvania, facility: Allenwood, your telephone number, your inmate's name and choose Monthly Plan. Go to the Pay Now page, once the order is complete it

The phone service at the Spartanburg County Jail in South Carolina is set up through bid process. Global Tel*Link has the contract for all inmate outbound calling and to tape record the calls. Therefore, you have to use them to receive calls. The choice is whether you pay GTL for a long distance call or a local call. Depending on where you are, we might be able to save you a lot of money. Here is how it works... We

The phone service at all of the correction centers are set up through bid process. There are about 30 prison-specific phone companies that fight to get the contract for each and every prison. Whoever has the contract for all inmate outbound calling and to tape record the calls essentially has a monopoly and you have to use them to receive calls.  The choice is whether you pay them for a long distance call that can run as much as $15.00

Simply email the new location to aid@inmateaid.com and we will get you a new local number for the new facility within an hour - there is no charge for this service.

The phone system should be the same in Allenwood as in almost all of the federal facilities. The inmates use Trulinks which is monitored and maintained by the BOP. Inmates have an internal, closed computer system that controls the inmate accounts: commissary, Corrlinks email and the telephone system. Loved ones from the outside fund this account centrally through Western Union. The inmate moves the money between the services at their discretion. During the holiday time (Nov & Dec) inmate get

You pay $19.95 for the local telephone number that comes with 300 long distance minutes or 1000 long distance minutes. There is nothing on the site that mentions "unlimited minutes" and any site that does, usually has other fees for things you won;t know about until you are billed for them. There are no complaints about InmateAid andthis service and as long as you know that you have to use the prison telephone company with your local line, you will

You will have to get the number to your inmate as most of the prison personnel will not pass along messages to the inmate. If you would like us to get you a coupon to use our letter service, on the house, just let us know and we will get you a coupon code to use.

The phone service at all of the prisons in the Arkansas Department of Correction is set up through bid process. In this case, GTL has the contract for all inmate outbound calling and to tape record the calls - essentially a monopoly. Therefore, you have to use them to receive any calls. The choice is whether you pay GTL for a long distance call (to your number) or a local call (to a number that we get you). If you

It is unfortunate, but we cannot get you a number for Pine Knot, KY.  It is very rare, but this rural area does not share their local lines with any outside carrier. If we can't get the line, they can only be procured by going there and getting a local cell phone. The federal system is the same throughout the country. The inmates create their own calling list on a closed computer system within the BOP. All inmates get 300