Prison Potpourri
This US state imprisons more people than Russia, China, Turkey, Iran, Thailand, or Mexico?
What is the great state of Texas?
The mission of this department is to provide inmates an easy method to purchase items not furnished to them by TDCJ.
What are the Inmate Trust Fund and Commissary?
Telephone calls placed to victims, third-party calls, calls on speaker phones, and international calls.
What are calls and conversations not be permitted using the OTS?
TDCJ is moving to reduce contraband items arriving at the prison by eliminating this.
What are cards and letters from Loved Ones to Inmates via the US Mail?
These forms are allegedly available from the law library, your housing area, or a shift supervisor.
What is a Step 1 Grievance Form (I-127)?
Which US state imprisons the least amount of people?
What is Massachusetts?
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What is Maine?
Friends and family members may purchase certain items from the state for delivery to a specific prisoner.
What is eConnDirect?
Friends or family members discovered facilitating these types of calls or conversations may be blocked by the warden for a period not to exceed this limit.
What is 45 days
This new process will be handled by Securus Technologies .
What is Digital Mail?
From the date of the alleged incident, you have this much time to complete the Step 1 Grievance Form (I-127) and forward it to the unit grievance investigator (UGI).
What is 15 days?
What religious group implemented the concept of solitary confinement?
Who are the Quakers?
During the fourth quarter of the year, friends and family are allowed to spend more than the usual amount of money on their loved one.
What is the Holiday Spend?
All telephone calls (except calls to the offender’s attorney of record) are subject to this.
What is monitoring and/or recording?
Books, magazines, tennis shoes, and other approved parcels.
What are items not planned for Digital Mail processing?
For a non-medical Step 1 grievance, the investigation and process make take this long.
What is up to 40 days?
Which Country incarcerates the greatest number of its population?
What are the United States?
What do clocks, hair dryers, fans, radios, typewriters, and curling irons all have in common?
What are Registered Property Purchases?
The introduction of these electronic devices has eliminated the OTS queue.
What are the Securus Tablets?
This party bears 100% of the cost of Digital Mail.
Who is the Texas Department of Criminal Justice?
If you are not satisfied with the Step 1 response, what is the next course of action open to you?
What is filing a Step 2 Grievance (1-128)
What is the most secure prison facility in the world, from which, no one has ever successfully escaped?
What is the ADX?
What is the Alcatraz of the Rockies?
What is the US Pen Admin. MAX Facility? What is SuperMax?
Inmates may purchase postage stamps, envelopes, pens, paper, and erasers each month
What are Correspondence Supplies?
Inmates may directly transfer funds from this account to their OTS account.
What is the Inmate Trust Fund.
The maximum number of cards and letters that can be sent to an inmate in a given month?
What is unlimited?
The Unit Grievance Investigator’s additional Step 2 process and investigation could possibly take this long.
What is up to 40 days?