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InmateAid does not monitor, verify or update the user generated inmate profile information unless requested. If you would like us to try and locate them, please email us at aid@inmateaid.com.

If you are sent to a prison to serve out a sentence, there are no free calls. The calls are initiated by the inmate, but they must have money in their account or money on a phone plan on the outside. If you are going to speak with him more than once a week, check with our Discount Telephone Service to see if additional savings can be gotten with a new number.

yes, use the InmateAid Letter service and send some great pictures, too

The process isn't any different for folks not incarcerated. It's just that being locked up makes the simple process harder.  He will need to file a petition with the court, but most likely will have to pay an attorney to make sure it's done properly. The person he is divorcing will have to be served papers and then the fun begins. 

No. Parole is an option that is determined at sentencing by the judge. If parole is available to you, you would likely get a chance to reduce your time served and not have to do the entire bid inside. Not all offenders are given parole as an option in their Judgement and Commitment order. If you don't have that option you will do 85% of your sentence and then get released. You will immediately report to the Probation Office and

"Ask the Inmate" is not a direct communication link to a particular inmate; it is a question and answer forum between you and a former inmate who knows how things work on the inside. To communicate, you can write letters, postcards, greeting cards or send photos - you will have to go to your My Account area and click on the Inmate Page and then click "Letters". You will be able to communicate with them through there.

There is no way for us to know or guess what the outcome will be without more information. Did this charge involve an accident or injury to people or property? All of the factors surrounding his previous charges and their penalties will be used to determine how they will proceed in this third charge.

Of course they are. We have served thousands of folks that have an inmate where CityTeleCoin has the contract. InmateAid's Discount Telephone Service is not a replacement for the phone service at the jail, we provide a number that will make the calls cheaper when you use them.  We have found a number that is going to be more beneficial. If you have received calls from your inmate already, you've seen the 318 area code on the caller ID. To get the lowest priced inmate calls, we get

In your My Account area after logging in, the section "Letters to Inmates" will have a record of all your paid and pending letters, photos, postcards or greeting cards.