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| April 23, 2026

FCC Prison Phone Rate Caps 2026: What Changed and What It Means for Your Family

Published on April 23, 2026, by InmateAid Table of Contents Introduction What the FCC Does and Why It Matters The Rollercoaster: 2024 to 2026 The New Rate Caps — Effective April 6, 2026 Does This Affect Your Facility? What Has Not Changed What You Can Do Right Now What to...

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| January 03, 2019

How solitary confinement drove a young inmate to the brink of insanity

January 2, 2019 By Jeff Coen and Stacy St. Clair - Chicago Tribune With his mental state deteriorating as he sat in the crushing isolation of solitary confinement, a desperate inmate named Anthony...
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| December 29, 2018

Prison Reform Law Doesn't Go Far Enough - Bloomberg

December 28, 2018 By Tyler Cowen - Opinion Now that President Donald Trump has signed a bipartisan criminal justice bill into law, it is worth looking at this issue in more fundamental terms. I...
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| December 26, 2018

'Changing The Mindset': Female Inmates In Training For A Life After Prison

December 25, 2018 By Cheryl Corley - NPR The inside of one of the buildings at Washington Corrections Center for Women looks like a prep site for a construction project. It's full of cinder blocks,...
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| December 24, 2018

Visiting Applications and Rules for Visiting Federal Bureau of Prisons (all BOP)

Immediate Family: Relatives: Other types of approved visitors: In certain circumstances such as when an inmate first enters prison or is transferred to a new prison, a visiting list might not exist...
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| December 21, 2018

From Courtroom to Prison

When you are sentenced you will be taken straight out of the back of the courtroom, from the dock, down to the cells. You will not be able to see any friends or family and you will need to have...
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| December 21, 2018

First Time in Prison?

The most important thing to keep in mind is to expect that things will not go as planned. Before you go in, you might find many people will offer advice – and you should take as much as you can....
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| December 21, 2018

A Day in the Life of a Prisoner

By JERRY METCALF, Inmate People are constantly asking me: What’s a day in prison like? Is it boring? Or are you busy? So the other day, I toted a pocket-sized notebook with me everywhere I went,...
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| December 21, 2018

How to Survive in Prison or County Jail as a Sex Offender

Sex offenders are perceived by other inmates as the weakest of the weak; their crimes the lowest of the low. This is the reason why sex offenders get beat up in prison most of the time. If you’re a...
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