Ask The Inmate. Real answers from people who've been there.

Because it works, and nobody has stopped it from working. This pattern shows up constantly and it follows a predictable script. The inmate asks for money. The person on the outside cannot send it, for whatever reason. Suddenly there are accusations, jealousy, threats to end the relationship. It feels like it came out of nowhere, but it did not. It is a pressure tactic, and the reason it keeps happening is that it keeps getting results. Prison is a powerless environment. An...

A fugitive warrant transfer handled by the US Marshals means your boyfriend is likely in federal custody, which makes the Bureau of Prisons inmate locator your best starting point. Search for him at bop.gov/inmateloc using his name and date of birth. If he has been processed into federal custody anywhere in the system, that database will show his current location. Two weeks of silence after a single call is consistent with what happens during an interstate transfer handled by the Marshals....

The more useful question here is why you are doubting her in the first place. If your instinct is to verify rather than support, something in the relationship is already telling you something worth listening to. That is not an accusation in either direction. It is just honest. On the factual side, pregnancy and miscarriage in jail are both real and more common than most people realize. Women enter custody pregnant more often than the system is equipped to handle, prenatal care...

Possibly, but that is not the most pressing issue right now. Your son is the one sitting inside with a dirty UA, a fresh set of charges, and fines stacking up. That is where the focus needs to be. Whatever happens to the person who brought the drugs in is largely out of his hands and out of yours, and spending energy on that question right now is a distraction from what actually matters. Here is the reality. Facilities do investigate the...

What he is in is called Administrative Segregation, and it is meaningfully different from Disciplinary Segregation even though the physical setup looks similar from the outside. Disciplinary Segregation, the kind most people think of when they hear "the hole," is a punishment. It gets imposed on an inmate for a rule violation and comes with restrictions on phone calls, visits, and privileges. Administrative Segregation is a housing classification, not a punishment. It is used when there is a safety concern, either...

Yes, magazine subscriptions can follow an inmate through a transfer, but it does not happen automatically. The publisher needs to be notified of the new address before they can redirect future issues. If you ordered the subscription through InmateAid, just send an email to aid@inmateaid.com with the updated facility information and InmateAid will handle the notification to the publisher directly. Publishers are generally good about making sure issues get delivered even when there has been a move, and any issues that...

This is a hard situation to hear clearly when you are in the middle of it, so here is a straight read on what is actually happening. Eight months in, a drug problem on her record, and she pivoted to another man the moment the money stopped. That is not a coincidence. Inmates, particularly those dealing with addiction, learn quickly who on the outside will keep their accounts funded and their commissary stocked. It is not always calculated in a cold...