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Subject: Release questions

Normally it gets done within the first three months. The calculations are done by the administration of people outside the prison staff. Some inmates have credits to be determined that would affect their actual release date.

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Subject: Inmateaid website questions

Yes, as do all of the federal facilities. For instance, if you are not a local call from Edgefield, we can get you a local phone line that will forward to your current number and drop the 15-minute call to only $0.90.

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Subject: Furloughs

If they are granted furloughs where they are incarcerated they might be eligible to enjoy a weekend at home

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Subject: Inmate phone calls

The standard policy is that minutes do not carry over from one month to the next. InmateAid's phone service runs on a month to month basis and each billing cycle resets regardless of how many minutes were used in the previous period. Unused minutes from one month do not accumulate into the next. That said, if there was a legitimate reason the service went unused, whether a transfer, a stretch in the hole with no phone access, a medical

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Subject: Send inmate mail

they are sent via the USPS and are received in the mailroom before being handed out at "mail call".

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Subject: Sentencing questions

This confusion is more common than you might expect and there is a straightforward explanation for most of it. Leavenworth is actually home to two distinct federal facilities that share the same general location and often get conflated in databases and search results. There is the United States Penitentiary Leavenworth, which is a high security federal prison, and there is the Leavenworth Federal Satellite Camp, which is a minimum security facility that sits adjacent to it. They are separate

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Subject: Arrest record search

Contact the Clerk of the Court in the county where the charge was filed. You can also use our partner who gives our members the latest arrest data (for a small fee). Click here to check it out.

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Subject: After prison challenges & services

your inmate will have to add it

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Subject: Parole, probation & supervised release

No. An outstanding warrant for absconding stops the clock on your probation entirely. Probation does not expire on its own while there is an active warrant hanging over it. The January 6th end date that appears in your paperwork was calculated based on the assumption that you would remain in compliance through the full term. Absconding, which means leaving supervision without authorization, is one of the most serious probation violations possible because it represents a deliberate decision to evade

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