Ask The Inmate. Real answers from people who've been there.

The inmate's case manager and counselor recommend the amount of halfway house time. Usually, the longer the sentence, the longer the halfway house giving the released have ample time to re-enter the workplace and society in general. The qualifications are that the inmate is within 12 months of release. Normally six months is the longest time period for halfway house residency. Once there, the inmate is almost home. Continue following rules, get a job and start paying one-third of your...

The facility is not going to deliver that information for you. Staff are not in the business of passing phone numbers from outside parties to inmates, and while occasionally an empathetic officer will make an exception, that is not something you can count on or plan around. The reliable way to get the number to her is through mail. Send a letter or postcard to Gilpin County Detention Center with the InmateAid number written clearly inside. That piece of mail will...

You might find that attitude in any walk of life. The cashier at Walmart, the nurse at your doctor's office or the deli man at the grocery could all have "a bad day". For you to think that YOU need to kiss their ass is an indictment on your attitude. WAKE UP, this isn't a hotel or restaurant. The guards are not social workers, they are paid to oversee prisoners, not patrons. YOU follow their rules without arrogance or don't...

On the minutes, yes, the standard plan runs 300 minutes per month. The exception comes during the holiday season. In November and December the Bureau of Prisons increases the allotment to 400 minutes to account for the higher volume of family calls during that time of year. That extra hundred minutes makes a real difference during the stretch of the year when staying connected matters most. On computers, federal facilities do have them, but they are not the open internet access...

The 300 minutes your inmate gets each month are controlled by the Bureau of Prisons, not by InmateAid. The BOP resets that allotment on the same date every month, but that reset date is specific to each inmate and is set by the BOP when the inmate first enters the system. It is not necessarily the first of the month. It could be any date depending on when that individual's account was established. Once those 300 minutes are used up, your...

The facility is not going to deliver that message for you through official channels. Staff are not supposed to pass phone numbers from outside parties to inmates, and while an occasional empathetic officer might make an exception, that is not something you can count on or plan around. The two reliable options are mail and visitation. Mail is the most straightforward. Write the new number in a letter or on a postcard and send it directly to your inmate at Fayette County....

No, and understanding the distinction is what makes the math click. InmateAid is not a replacement for the phone carrier at your jail or prison. Whatever company holds that contract, Securus, GTL, IC Solutions, or any of the others, stays in place. Your inmate still makes calls through that carrier and the cost still comes out of their account. That part does not change. What InmateAid does is use software to identify the lowest-cost number available for your specific facility and provide...