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Subject: Inmateaid website questions

In most cases the letter will find its way to your friend regardless of whether it went to the main site or the annex. Correctional facilities that operate multiple sites on the same campus or within the same system typically have mail forwarding procedures in place for exactly this situation. Staff at the receiving mailroom generally know where to redirect mail when an inmate is housed at an adjacent or connected site. TCIX, the Turney Center Industrial Complex in

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Subject: Inmate transfer

Yes, unfortunately it is, and the lawyer who promised otherwise was not being straight with you. Facility designation in the federal system is controlled entirely by the Bureau of Prisons Designation and Sentence Computation Center in Grand Prairie, Texas. Nobody outside of that office has binding authority over where an inmate gets placed. Not the sentencing judge, not the defense attorney, not the prosecutor. The judge can recommend a facility close to the inmate's home address in the sentencing

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Subject: Send inmate mail

On delivery confirmation, the honest answer is that there is no tracking mechanism once mail enters a correctional facility. InmateAid sends everything through USPS, and like standard mail it does not go out certified or with return receipt requested. Once it clears the facility's mailroom inspection and gets distributed at mail call, there is no digital ping that comes back to confirm it landed in your person's hands. The most reliable confirmation is the low-tech version: ask them. If

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Subject: Inmateaid website questions

You can get a prepaid visa card at any drug store or target, walmart or grocery. Any of those cards will work with our services 

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Subject: Arrest record search

Thank you for the kind words, it usually takes 1-3 days to reach the facility however it is up to the mail room personnel to actually pass the mail out to the inmates.

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Subject: Pending criminal charges

Are we talking arraignment, bond hearing, pleadings? You are entitled to a speedy trial but that is not generaly defined to a time frame. We know some defendants that could not make bail sit in county jail for 6-9 months before anything happened on the case.

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Subject: General prison questions-terminology

Florida law specifically disqualifies certain categories of offenders from earning gain time, which is the credit that reduces the amount of a sentence that must be served. Sex offenses involving minors are among the most restricted categories in the Florida corrections system. Under Florida statute, inmates convicted of certain sexual offenses, particularly those involving victims under the age of 18, are required to serve 100% of their imposed sentence with no reduction for gain time. This is not a

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Subject: Prison discipline

The moves themselves tell a story even without an official explanation, and reading that pattern is worth doing carefully. The honor farm is the best housing situation available in most county systems. It is reserved for inmates who have earned a lower custody classification, typically through good behavior, a nonviolent record, and a clean institutional history. Getting placed there initially means he qualified. Getting pulled from it means something triggered a reclassification, and facilities do not move people off

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Subject: Work release

This is a classification abbreviation - it refers to the lowest level of custody where and inmate will have the opportunity to get some work release time which allows the inmate into the public domain for work, and then go back to the facility in the evenings.

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Subject: Send inmate mail

Postcards are sent immediately upon ordering from our partner in San Francisco. It takes a day or two for it to make it to your inmate's facility. It is a great vaslue and excellent service. Don't forget to check out the Greeting Cards, also only 99 cents, too... never miss a holiday, special event or birthday - let your inmate know you're always thinking of them.

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