Money sent through Western Union is normally posted within a couple of hours. Depending on the system at the prison/jail, inmates may access their account on the telephone or their counselor hands them a receipt of deposit with the amount and the sender.

When Securus is the company with the contract for all inmate outbound calling and to tape record the calls, you have to look carefully at the per-call price because they are doing things differently than the other prison phone carriers..  Securus has a rate calculator on their site and we use it to get you the BEST number for inmate calling - and now the local number isn't always your best option.  Regardless, you have to use them to receive calls. The

That is not a good sign. The fire camp is a good detail for inmates as they get to be outside and do a normal-type job. Getting transferred to the Centinela State Prison, where they provide for the confinement of General Population, Level I, Level III inmates, Level III sensitive needs and maximum security (Level IV) inmates would tell us that he might have lost his custody level due to some violation of rules. 

Inmates cannot accept incoming calls, they have to initiate the call. Local calls are the cheapest - long distance and collect calls can run $15 for 15 minutes, people use InmateAid's Discount Phone Service to get local numbers making the calls from the jail at the cheapest rate.

Inmate mail is delivered Monday through Friday only

Fights happen in prison just like they happen on the outside. People that tend to snap at little things are always going to be in the middle of fights, especially in higher security prisons where the inmates do not take to disrespect or shows of fear lightly. Inmates involved in fights are often times thrown in the SHU for months at a time. If there are bad injuries to one or more of the inmates, the punishment could be more time

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He will serve 85% of his sentence unless there are incident reports that take away the 15% good time credits they get automatically.  It is NOT true that most inmates get raped. It does happen but it depends on where they are doing time, what their profile is (their age and size), and if they are unwise as to how to do their time. Inmates must not put themselves in a position where they can be taken advantage of or

The mail will get forwarded within the Riker's Island Complex

All visitors that fill out a  pre-qualification - their name is run through the NCIC database for criminal record and outstanding warrants