The magistrate that oversaw the arraignment determines bail on a number of factors. Did the magistrate set a bail amount for your inmate? The other defendants either bonded out or were not considered for bail, which brings up another set of questions. If your inmate is not able to get out, this will seem like a long process and will likely drag on for several weeks or even months before there is a disposition. The federal prosecution tends to move

He might not get it if he's been moved. Most of the prison staff members will not forward mail to the inmate's new location. If you provide us with the new location and their ID number, we will change it in their profile and remail it for you at no charge,

When we deliver the new line to you via email within one hour from the time you sign up, and it is ready to go. You are to give the local line we provisioned to your inmate to make their outbound calls with. It will ring to your phone without interfering with your current service. The prison phone carriers maintain a monopoly on outbound calling with only one variance to saving money, the price difference for a local call versus

The diagnostic prison is to assemble information on the inmate for further classification, designation, treatment and programming. Your inmate may not be prison material but very few are when they go in.  There will be an adaptation period where he will need to keep to himself and observe the routine of others and find one that will best fit his personality and interests.  Prison is like a little town with everything that you would see in a community, just in

State inmates are required to do 85% of their sentence. Inmates with less than one year on their sentence do not normally get moved around so we think that unless he comes into a real conflict, he will do the whole sentence there.

Facility Procedures and Expectations for Visitors of the Illinois DOCOn your first visit to a facility you will be required to complete a “Prospective Visitor’s Interview” form. If visitors are provide false information on the form, visitation privileges may be restricted or revoked. IDOC staff has the right to interview or request background information from potential visitors to determine whether the individual would pose a threat to the safety or security of the facility or any person or to the

His lifestyle is only going to change if he does steps necessary to improve his thought process. There is something that the therapists point to when assisting in rehabilitation: criminal thinking. Does your inmate have the capacity to look at himself and his flawed thinking. The inmate that can come to terms with his mistakes and face "change", will change. There are also other attitudes that an inmate must address as they go back to be a productive member of society

The online transfer services will not accept international cards. InmateAid offers a solution for international members but since it is not part of our core business, the service fee for doing so is a bit pricey. We charge $15 for the service but you also will have to pay the transfer fee for the service that the jail uses plus a credit card processing fee - the last two components are not fees for InmateAid but are necessary to get

The phone service at the all of the jails and prisons are set up through bid process. Whoever has the contract for all inmate outbound calling and to tape record the calls has a monopoly contract. Therefore, you have to use them to receive calls. The choice is whether you pay them for a long distance call or a local call. The price is usually a pretty sizable difference Here is how it works... We get you a local line

We estimate that it takes 2-3 business days to make it to the jail. Once there, the staff opens and reads each piece of mail and inspects it for contraband. Any delay that occurs at the facility is out of our control. We make no guarantees as to how long it will take as there are thousands of facilities and none of them do things the same way.Please be patient, if the ID number and facility are correct we are