If your inmate is doing her time in the federal system, the halfway house is pretty much standard release protocol. We have heard of inmates denying halfway house altogether and are able to finish their sentence "inside". As far as release completely, this is up the the language in the Judgement and Commitment document written by the judge who sentenced her. If there is a period of supervised release, then "running" would be foolish. The BOP will not keep an

The letter and photo service from InmateAid is straightforward, it is mailed using the US Postal Service. You type up a letter and upload photos where applicable - proceed to the Pay Now page and complete the transaction. The letter order flows through our Admin area to the Processing Department. Letters are processed immediately upon entry unless it is after 6pm on Saturday, then the letters do not go through the process until Monday morning. You may check in your

Usually, the sentence requires an 85% serve time. If they get the good time, it'll probably be 4-5 days early, off of the 30 days. Inmate release is different in every facility but it is normally in the early morning hours, not a midnight. 

You will have to place money into his inmate trust account where he must buy a special player that is made specifically for prison inmates. You cannot send in anything other than letters, photos, magazine subscriptions and paperback books that are shipped direct from the publisher. You have to be very careful about mailing anything as it will get rejected.

The primary way to get a sentence reduction without having to cooperate with the government with substantial assistance in convicting someone else is the Residential Drug Addiction Program (RDAP). If the inmate is eligible, there is a nine month program what once completed will reduce the sentence up to twelve months along with a guarantee of six months of halfway house.  If you have more detailed questions about this, we have people here that have gone through the program and know more about it than

If your inmate calls are routing through a long distance number to you, the VERY best way is to get a line that is matched to the rate center of the prison. The prison phone companies normally charge much higher rates for long distance calls versus local calls. We can get a better rate through this matching process. Our fee is $19.95 which is covered by the savings in about 4-5 calls in most cases. Depending on the number of

Federal indictments statistically have a 97% conviction rate. Most of the drug conspiracy cases are done with multiple defendants who are typically informing on each other to reduce their own sentence. Depending on the true story behind your husband's involvement, there is a high likelihood that he will indeed do federal time, regardless that he is a first-time offender.  If your husband has some guilt in this case, the best advice we can give is to not spend too much

“Ask the Inmate” is not a direct communication link to a particular inmate, it is a question and answer forum between you and a former inmate who knows how things work on the inside. To communicate, you can write letters or send photos - you will have to go to your My Account area and click on the Inmate Page and then click "Letters". You will be able to communicate to them through there.

Unfortunately you will have to get the number to your inmate as the prisons will not relay messages of any kind from the outside into an inmate. We have a reliable letter service that you may use - ask us and we will provide a coupon code to send the new local number to your inmate.

The inmate pages are created and maintained by the members and users of the site. We do not monitor or verify this self-generated content. If you want to use the service on the website, you will need to set up a profile. If you need help, please send us the inmate's name,inmate ID, state and facility name and we will set it up for you. If you send a letter to the wrong facility through InmateAid, send us the changes