You will need to go to the grocery or Wal-Mart to buy a prepaid card. They will work exactly the same as a credit card.

Depending upon where they located, there are various services online or ways to send it through the mail. Where is your inmate incarcerated?

This sounds like something that is getting a lot of national press. Here is something that was published in Forbes and in the Washington Post a couple of months ago:Two Minnesota men face federal criminal charges over an alleged tax fraud scheme run from prison. A federal indictment alleges that Tanka James Tetzlaff, 39, of Duluth, and Tony Terrell Robinson, 30, of Bayport, were the ringleaders. They each face a count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, plus ten

You will need to get that number to him either by mail, in-person or on the telephone. the jail personnel will not forward the message.

If your inmate is doing her time in the federal system, the halfway house is pretty much standard release protocol. We have heard of inmates denying halfway house altogether and are able to finish their sentence "inside". As far as release completely, this is up the the language in the Judgement and Commitment document written by the judge who sentenced her. If there is a period of supervised release, then "running" would be foolish. The BOP will not keep an

The letter and photo service from InmateAid is straightforward, it is mailed using the US Postal Service. You type up a letter and upload photos where applicable - proceed to the Pay Now page and complete the transaction. The letter order flows through our Admin area to the Processing Department. Letters are processed immediately upon entry unless it is after 6pm on Saturday, then the letters do not go through the process until Monday morning. You may check in your

Usually, the sentence requires an 85% serve time. If they get the good time, it'll probably be 4-5 days early, off of the 30 days. Inmate release is different in every facility but it is normally in the early morning hours, not a midnight. 

You will have to place money into his inmate trust account where he must buy a special player that is made specifically for prison inmates. You cannot send in anything other than letters, photos, magazine subscriptions and paperback books that are shipped direct from the publisher. You have to be very careful about mailing anything as it will get rejected.

The primary way to get a sentence reduction without having to cooperate with the government with substantial assistance in convicting someone else is the Residential Drug Addiction Program (RDAP). If the inmate is eligible, there is a nine month program what once completed will reduce the sentence up to twelve months along with a guarantee of six months of halfway house.  If you have more detailed questions about this, we have people here that have gone through the program and know more about it than

If your inmate calls are routing through a long distance number to you, the VERY best way is to get a line that is matched to the rate center of the prison. The prison phone companies normally charge much higher rates for long distance calls versus local calls. We can get a better rate through this matching process. Our fee is $19.95 which is covered by the savings in about 4-5 calls in most cases. Depending on the number of