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The Parole Board meets once a month and the decisions are made the same day, usually within an hour from the end of the hearing. If your inmate is granted parole, they are immediately taken into protective custody (PC) for the remaining days or weeks until their release. Inmates are notorious for trying to "jack the parolee's time" by planting contraband or getting into a fight in an effort to delay or cancel the parolee's release. These inmate are jealous...

Every new arrival at a federal facility must complete an orientation period before any privileges are granted. This includes phone access, visitation, and in some cases, commissary. The orientation process at most BOP facilities, including Texarkana, typically takes about a week, sometimes a few days less and occasionally a bit longer, depending on intake volume and scheduling. During that window, your person is getting processed, classified, briefed on facility rules, and assigned to their housing unit and work detail. Phone lists,...

Once your letter shows as sent in your InmateAid account, plan on about 2 to 3 business days for it to travel through the postal system and reach the facility in Texarkana. That timeline covers the transit from InmateAid's mailing facility to the jail or prison, but it does not account for what happens inside the mailroom after it arrives. Every piece of incoming mail at a correctional facility goes through a review process before it reaches the inmate. Staff open...

Absolutely, and this is exactly how the system is designed to work. Not every inmate appears in the search results automatically, particularly those in smaller county jails or facilities that do not share data with public inmate locators. That is not a problem. InmateAid allows you to create a profile manually for any inmate at any facility as long as you know where they are housed. Once you set up the profile with the correct facility information, all of InmateAid's services become...