Yes, the inmate profiles are set up by Users of the site. They can set up an inmate profile or use one that is already on the website. There are no restrictions, but one User cannot see if another User is connected to the inmate you are following. There are a lot of famous inmates doing time. Users like to reach out and write them or send them pictures or other things. Aaron Hernandez, before his death and OJ

You can try the service for FREE now until the 25th with coupon code TRYUS. You get ONE FREE picture and ONE FREE letter delivered to your inmate at any prison or jail in the United States. Click on Letters and Photos and follow the easy steps. Type out your letter and upload a selfie!! Use the coupon code which will pay for the entire transaction.

Inmates do not have access to the internet and should not be able to access the InmateAid website. However, there are countless incidents where inmates are caught with smartphones that can indeed access the internet. InmateAid was created for the family and support groups of inmates. There are not many things you can do for an inmate, but InmateAid has everything that you can - it's all in one place and it keeps you organized, connected, confident that someone has

Set up an inmate profile and surprise away

It's called Letters from Inmates. Inmates write you back to our return address. We scan the letters they send and email the notification to you. It is a very popular service, the Users do not have to give their real address to the inmate (or the prison staff or other nosy inmates for that matter) if they want to keep that private.

Members of the site create the inmate profiles. InmateAid does not monitor the accuracy of the entries unless asked to do so by the person who created the profile

Yes, this service works for every facility, but the savings vary from person to person due to their location.

InmateAid has a database of inmates that are created by the members of the site for their use in maintaining communication with their loved one. We have made the website a unique "one-stop shop" for anything to do with an inmate, before they go in, once they are there and when they leave. Anyone can log onto InmateAid.com and create a profile. We have some inmates with dozens of profiles that are there for their own use, not necessarily

InmateAid has been around since 2012 and serves over one million people per month. The Letters and Photos service is one of the most popular and is 100% legitimate. The processing is instantaneous as it sends the order to a third-party processing company. We send thousands per day with very little issue. Sometimes people select the wrong facility or forget to add the inmate ID number and the letter gets returned. If that happens, we investigate the reason and resend it at

Lot of inmates do their bid all alone. No one to call, to write, or visit them. The criteria is that they are property of the state or the United States (in federal). The staff isn't interested in the mudane social life of a con, the COs don't work that hard. Reading profiles would be over and above their job description.