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Subject: Relationship issues

Inmates in a halfway house are permitted to leave for work, treatment meetings, church and short trips to the store. Obviously, if they are out getting employment, they are going to run into people on the street, women, too.

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Subject: Family services

We have no control if the mail is slower than normal, that is clearly out of our control. What you are asking for is not within the abilities of the business. We mail thousands of letters and postcards per day. Sending someone to the post office to get tracking on your letters would require too much time - for what we'd have to charge, not sure it's going to be worth it.

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Subject: Inmate phone calls

Unfortunately no, the inmate must have money on their books for them to make an outbound call to you.

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Subject: Visitation

Picture tickets are bought through the commissary at $1.00 per picture. These are for visiting room photos of the inmate with their loved ones.

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Subject: Send inmate money

Try MoneyGram. They are the oldest and most trusted of all the money transfer companies. You'll have to go their site and scroll through the selections. If you run into any issues, email us and we'll help you with step-by-step instructional screenshots.

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Subject: Inmateaid website questions

Go to your Account Dashboard. Scroll to the bottom where it says "Account" and underneath is "Manage existing cards". You can make the change there.

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Subject: Relationship issues

Trust what you actually experience over what someone tells you secondhand, and your experience is that when you two talk, it goes well. There are a few explanations for why this happens. The most common is that staff passing along messages about inmate preferences are often working from limited or outdated information. A case manager or unit officer who was asked at one moment whether an inmate wanted contact may have caught them at a low point, a bad

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Subject: Relationship issues

unfortunately no. inmates have a right of privacy from anyone peering into their personal information while incarcerated. The inmates are afforded privacy as it relates to their visitation list, their phone list and who is putting money on their commissary. The only person that can tell you is the inmate themselves. Use your instinct and good sense.

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Subject: Relationship issues

There is no way to access your husband's call logs, approved contact list, or correspondence from the outside. Inmates have privacy rights that extend to their personal communications while incarcerated, and that information is not available to family members, spouses, or anyone else outside the facility without a legal process. The facility itself monitors all inmate communication for security purposes, but that monitoring is internal. It is not shared with outside parties on request. What is worth sitting

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Subject: Sentencing questions

He caught a charge, then got bail, then got caught stealing a car? We don't know what the first charge was so it makes guessing harder. Plus we need to know is past criminal history and if he's been in before. There are several determinates that make up the sentence. Just a guess, if there are no priors... 2-3 years

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