Text messaging enables families, friends, and inmates to communicate more efficiently than phone calls and letters, while being more private than either. Texting helps prisoners develop positive relationships while relieving family burdens such as purchasing stamps, paper, photo printers, visiting money order shops or hand writing reply letters.
Inmate-to-Inmate Texting
TRULINCS provides electronic messaging systems to inmates at most facilities, enabling them to send and receive messages electronically. To send one to another inmate, first add them as a contact in your messaging account; each message costs one credit purchased using either major credit or debit cards; inmates cannot reply directly and all messages must first go through screening to ensure they do not contain anything that would endanger safety and security in either the facility or public at large.
Jails and prisons often give inmates access to email systems or third-party services that allow them to communicate online with approved contacts, often under supervision and possibly without the same protections that would exist outside. Furthermore, these services often come with restrictions and limitations which make preserving messages difficult indefinitely.
Additionally, jails and prisons have begun offering tablet programs that give inmates their own devices for messaging and other services. These devices are managed by private companies which charge users for these services and may come with their own set of limitations and costs; inmates wishing to text loved ones who are incarcerated must purchase data while those they wish to communicate with must purchase stamps per message sent.
Inmate-to-Friend Texting
Inmate-to-Friend texting is a reliable software system that enables loved ones and friends of inmates to stay in contact without incurring costly cellphone calls. At an affordable cost per message, this service prioritizes instant communication while simultaneously being cost effective. Furthermore, its security software screens messages for content that could compromise public or facility safety.
Inmates can send and receive electronic messages with family and friends using the eMessaging app on their smartphones or tablets using eMessaging, while family and friends can purchase electronic “stamps” through this website using major credit or debit cards and use these stamps in their accounts to send electronic messages directly to those incarcerated individuals.
An inmate’s use of TRULINCS public messaging privileges must first be approved by their facility. To do this, the facility reviews presentence investigation reports, criminal histories and any relevant information provided to it by them in regards to them using this service. Inmates convicted of certain offenses such as possessing child pornography or drug trafficking will not have access to TRULINCS public messaging privileges.
At numerous facilities throughout the country, inmate-to-friend messaging is available. Each inmate is granted a set amount of time each day to use the service; once this time has expired they will be logged out; however if they were in the middle of typing when their time ran out the system will store their text so they may continue typing later.
Inmate-to-Advocacy Texting
After years of pressure from advocates and regulators, prison phone rates were reduced. Instead of slowing down, companies providing prison phone services shifted focus towards new services such as text-based electronic messaging – often through for-profit companies which share part of their revenue with prisons that contract them and come with significant security implications.
Inmates and their loved ones can access these messages from a tablet received in their housing unit or kiosk/computer in the facility. Unlike traditional email systems, which are open and unmonitored, this technology enables inmates to communicate freely with family and friends without risking privacy breaches or engaging in illegal activity such as harassment threats or organizing criminal activities.
These services typically impose strict character limits; letters, numbers, punctuation marks and special characters all count against this limit – making it challenging to send legal briefs or other lengthy documents. Furthermore, many restrict who inmates can forward emails to: only family, lawyers or certain special recipients can forward them their message.
Electronic messaging provides the opportunity to bridge connections between those incarcerated and their loved ones; however, exorbitant fees and poor service are stifling this potential benefit. We need more transparent, robust, consistent guidelines, procedures, disclosure requirements, protections and protections in place to safeguard e-messaging data protection; furthermore we must ensure these companies don’t profit at the expense of prisoners behind bars.
Inmate-to-Community Texting
Text messaging services have revolutionized how federal inmates communicate with friends, families and support networks while behind bars. Offering prisoners hope of connection and hopefulness as they prepare to reenter society after serving time, these services have proven successful at supporting rehabilitation and helping prepare prisoners for release back into society.
To start communicating with an inmate loved one, create a Messaging account and add them as a Contact using their booking number or first and/or last name. Once an inmate is added to your Messaging account, electronic messages can be sent anytime using either credit or debit cards – ConnectNetwork offers message credits which can easily transfer between accounts for easier messaging – inmates can view and reply to these messages anytime of day or night!
Many jails and prisons offer inmates access to emails through kiosks or tablets, but this form of communication may lack privacy for many individuals. Therefore, families often turn to an inmate texting app as a secure platform that keeps in touch with loved ones behind bars.
When selecting an inmate texting app, it’s essential that families consider several key criteria – including user-friendliness, enhanced security measures and cost effectiveness – before making their selection. By considering these elements carefully, families can select an inmate-to-community texting service which will benefit both parties involved while simultaneously aiding rehabilitation efforts.