InmateAid's service is not email; it is with
the US Postal Service. Inmates do not have Internet
access. We estimate that it takes 2-3 business days to make it to the
jail. Once there, the staff opens and reads each piece of mail and
inspects it for contraband. Once they decide the mail is fit to be handed out
at mail call, your inmate will receive it. Any delay that occurs at the facility
is out of our control. We make no guarantees as to how long it will take as
there are thousands of facilities and none of them do things the same way.
Inmates that have money on their inmate trust
accounts can purchase stamps and envelopes at the weekly commissary. If they do
not have money on their books, the prison will provide indigent inmates with
all the materials necessary to send out mail to their loved ones.
If your inmate writes to you directly, using your address, the cost of the
mailing is a 49 cent stamp. Many of our members use the Inmate Response Mail
service through InmateAid. Your inmate would write you back to the return
address on the letters which are to the InmateAid corporate offices in Florida.
We receive the letters on your behalf, scan them into your My Account section
and notify you by email that they are waiting for your review.
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Accepted Answer Date Created: March 28,2015