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Securus Technologies holds the exclusive contract at East Central Arkansas Community Correction Center in West Memphis, which means there is no choice between carriers. Every call your inmate makes goes through Securus, regardless of what number they dial. That monopoly is not going away. What you can control is the rate Securus charges for those calls, and that rate is determined entirely by the phone number being dialed. Securus structures its pricing by number type, and the difference between the most...

The First Step Act is for eligible federal inmates, state inmates are not including in this new law. There are a number of offenders are excluded from receiving earned time credits. These include (but are not limited to) fentanyl traffickers, heroin or methamphetamine traffickers who played a leadership role in the crime, sex offenders, some immigration offenders, all 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offenders (any crime where a firearm was involved), and people convicted of other violent offenses. This a new system that allows...

Not necessarily, and it is worth understanding what that facility actually is before drawing conclusions about what the placement means. The Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison at Corcoran, known as SATF-CSP, is a California state prison specifically designed to house male inmates with substance abuse histories. It is a full state prison that houses inmates across various points in their sentences, not a pre-release facility or a transitional program. Being designated there means the California Department of Corrections and...

If your person has been moved from a Texas state or federal facility to a correctional facility at a military installation, the most likely explanation is that they are active duty military or have a military background that makes them subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice in addition to, or instead of, the civilian criminal system. Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state are on opposite ends of the country, so knowing which one...

Almost certainly nothing serious, and the timing is actually the most likely explanation. Moving from one housing unit or status into general population involves a lot of logistics happening simultaneously. New cell assignment, orientation to the unit's rules and schedules, getting settled with new bunkmates, learning where everything is and how this particular unit operates. Phone access in the first day or two after a move is not always immediate. He may need to update his approved call list at the...

We are very reliable as get our data from the Member created inmate profiles and the public information postings on government websites. Very few of them post the release date and offer it when it's a public record. The Department of Corrections or Bureau of Prisons keeps a record of those. some have the release dates and others don't. Sometimes you have to dig further by contacting the Clerk of the Court or US District Court to get the actual sentencing...