No, and that protection exists specifically for people in your situation. Juvenile records are confidential by law in every state. Facilities that house juvenile offenders are not permitted to publish or share lists of current or former inmates, and your record is not accessible to the general public the way an adult criminal record would be. You will not show up in a public inmate search, and your case will not appear in court databases that anyone can browse online. The reason...

In virtually every facility we are aware of, personal checks are not accepted for inmate accounts. The reasons are practical ones. Personal checks can bounce, can be fraudulent, and create administrative headaches that understaffed mailrooms and finance offices are not equipped to handle. Facilities moved away from accepting them years ago as electronic payment options became available. The good news is that putting money on an inmate's books is easier now than it has ever been, and there are several reliable...

Prison gets a bad reputation across the board, and some of it is deserved. But the reality is more nuanced than either the horror stories or the official line suggest. The best way to think about prison care is this: it is the minimum required by law, delivered consistently, without much warmth but without deliberate neglect either. The government funds it, which means it is adequate by a baseline standard and not much more. Nobody inside is going to confuse it...

Yes they do. As you can imagine, the best classes are the ones that you show willingness and openmindedness to learn from them. The challenge is getting your loved one to accept that they need to have feedback. Once they agree that it's goiong to benefit them, they will gain a lot of knowledge and it will make them better parents when they get out. It is important to try and let them come to the conclusion that they need...