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Subject: Send inmate mail

The user types the letter on the computer or cellphone and uploads some pictures... each of them requires a single credit. the packages come in 6-20 credits and are easy to use.

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Subject: Pending criminal charges

this depends if anyone was injured or if there was a loss of property stemming from the charge. Most likely, if you are not a habitual offender, the judge won't send you away.

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Subject: Survive prison

Quarantine is one of the harder stretches an inmate can go through, and the communication blackout on your end is genuinely stressful when nobody will tell you anything. Here is what the inside of a quarantine period actually looks like. Inmates are locked down 24 hours a day with very limited exceptions. Three hours of rec yard time per week and three showers per week are the standard allowances. Outside of those windows, they are in the cell.

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Subject: Prison discipline

The length of time in segregation depends almost entirely on how the incident was written up and by whom. Seven days in already puts him past the short end of what these things typically run. If the officer on the receiving end of his outburst filed a straightforward report without escalating it, another week is a reasonable estimate. That puts him in the two-week range total, which is fairly standard for a verbal incident without any physical component.

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Subject: Release questions

I'll assume you mean how much actual time would be served on a particular sentence... it starts with "good time credits" that are applied to the sentence calculator a the beginning of the sentence. An inmate can only lose that good time by having behavior issues or breaking numerous rules. In federal you get 15%, state prison ranges from 15-30% good time. The difference with the state is that they're also dealing with a parole system too that can release an offender

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Subject: Prison discipline

When a facility says an inmate is in lockdown and the email system is simultaneously blocking your messages, those two things are almost certainly connected. There are two different kinds of lockdown worth understanding. A facility-wide lockdown affects everyone at once, usually due to an incident, a search, or a staffing situation. In that case all communication gets suspended temporarily and restores once the lockdown lifts. But when it is just your husband who cannot receive messages while everyone

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Subject: Inmateaid website questions

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Subject: Inmateaid website questions

The letters you purchase through InmateAid are for sending mail to your inmate, not the other way around. Your inmate responds the old-fashioned way, through regular postal mail with a stamp. The current postage rate runs 73 cents for a standard letter. If your inmate does not have money on their books to buy stamps through commissary, the facility is required to provide basic writing materials, including paper, a pen, and postage for indigent inmates. Nobody gets completely cut

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Subject: Treatment vs.incarceration

Yes, and the system is actually set up to assess this from the very beginning. When a new inmate arrives and goes through orientation, the facility conducts a thorough intake screening that covers physical health, mental health, and substance abuse history. This is not optional and it is not superficial. The results of that screening directly influence where an inmate gets placed and what programming they are assigned to. If the assessment identifies a serious addiction that needs immediate

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Subject: General prison questions-terminology

it is very different because the feds have a bigger budget. the guards are better paid and very well trained. The food is better, the recreation and housing is more updated. Some state prisons in the south do not even have air conditioning.

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