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Almost certainly not through standard visitation, and here is why. Most correctional facilities run background checks on everyone who applies for visitation approval. Being on probation, particularly in the same county where your boyfriend is now being held for a probation violation, is one of the most common reasons visitation gets denied. Facilities are cautious about allowing people with active criminal justice supervision to visit inmates, both for security reasons and because probation conditions themselves often restrict contact with other people...

The short answer is that it happens more often than it should, and the mechanics are not complicated when someone is willing to deceive people who trust them. From inside a facility, an inmate can correspond with multiple people simultaneously. Letters, phone calls, and visits are not cross-referenced against each other. The person calling on Monday does not know who called on Tuesday. The woman sending money does not know about the woman sending letters. The facility has no interest in...

The most reliable way to find attorney information is through the court record, which is public and accessible without the inmate's help. Every time an attorney files a document on behalf of a defendant, their name, bar number, and contact information appear on that filing. Those documents are part of the public court record for the case. To access them, contact the clerk of the court in the county or federal district where the charges were filed. Most clerks can look...

Yes. In Arizona, if you are stopped or detained and a warrant comes up in the system, you will be taken into custody. Where you end up depends on the circumstances of the arrest and the nature of the warrant. In most cases you will be transported to the nearest county jail first. From there, if the warrant was issued in a different county, you may be transferred to the jurisdiction where the warrant originated. That transfer can happen quickly or...