EVERYBODY WINS WHEN SOMEONE IS ARRESTED...
EXCEPT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
I do not know how the Department of Corrections Policy is in any other State but I do know a little about it where I live in Florida.
If you are arrested here, you are expected to pay anywhere between $35 and $40 for Booking Fee.
Whatever cash you have in your belongings when booked is confiscated for that fee.
If you do not have any cash in your belongings, what ever monies your friends and family add into your canteen in order for you to be able to purchase such items as shampoo, a radio, batteries, chocolate bars, cookies, tuna and such will be deducted until your booking fees are paid for, the rest will be added into your canteen account.
My sister put $30 towards the canteen (Commissary) and I put another $25 into it but the total amount of $55.00 was taken entirely as the booking fee and still was minus $5.00 to complete the entire booking costs.
We were never informed of this by anyone of the correction officers at the time we asked where and how to deposit money into an inmates account; it was only later that week when we put money into an account for the inmate to purchase canteen items that the money went which we deposited went towards initial booking fees.
I almost forgot to mention that if the inmate needs a doctor, that fee will also come out of your canteen money. It is not much for the house call, just $12.00 for each visit. I am not sure how much they would charge if meds were necessary or worse, a sling or even stitches!
I have two receipts for both times I have left canteen money for my inmate in the ATM looking machine in the lobby and this is how my receipts read
$125.00
-7.50
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117.20 goes towards my inmates commissary
The following week I visited and deposited money towards my inmates Commissary, this is what my receipt read,
$58.00
7.80
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50.20 towards my inmates commissary
INMATES WITH NO CANTEEN (COMMISSARY) ACCOUNT MONEY HAVE TO WALK AROUND LOOKING ALL NASTY
Dante Morris
Gosh, they really did a number on him when he was apprehended
With no money in your canteen, you cannot shave, purchase shampoo buy chips or the famous Raman noodles which they sell to the inmates.
Dante Morris now
Two Tampa Deputies who Morris shot and killed were
Jeffrey Kocab and David Curtis on June 29th 2010
Rest In Peace Guys
JUST SO YOU KNOW AND BEFORE YOU BEGIN TO COMPLAIN ABOUT BOOKING FEES...
The fee charged to INMATES account is appropriate.”
Section 951.033(1) states in part: “The Legislature finds that there is an urgent need to alleviate the increasing financial burdens on local subdivisions of the state caused by the expenses of incarcerating prisoners.” In subsection (3), the statute provides that “[t]he chief correctional officer of a local subdivision may direct a prisoner to pay for all or a fair portion of daily subsistence costs.”
The sheriff’s Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) 917.00(D), which governs assessment of the fee, provides:
All non-federal inmates booked into the Hillsborough County Jail System will be charged an Initial Inmate Per Diem Fee to cover administrative costs, with the following exceptions:
1. Those individuals in an “in-transit” status for another
agency or jurisdiction.
2. Department of Corrections inmates brought back to
Hillsborough County by the State Attorney or Public Defender’s Office on writs of testificandum only.
3. Inmates
returning on writs of prosequendum are not exempt.
Key word is legislature, not law.
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You get one courtesy call while in jail, lasting for about 1 minute, then are quickly transferred to a company named, I.C. Solutions Customer Service.
(888) 506-8407
Call them with your debit or credit card handy in order for you to place payment for your inmate to be able to call you but be ready to be robbed.
Each time I put $10.00 worth of calls, my total payment is $19.65.
I live in Tampa and my daughter is in a jail which is also in Tampa.
When she calls me, the recorded message informs me that I have a collect call from (Her Name) an inmate at Faulkenburg Jail. I then press 5 to accept. I am informed that the calls are monitored and that the first minute will cost $2.50 and zero afterwards. We are then allowed 15 minutes of always interrupted conversation by dead air, poor audio reception and sometimes even disconnects.
I may as well be placing a call to China; but I do it because I love her and there are matter which must be discussed.
6. How do I set up and fund a pre-paid calling account?
ICSolutions offers two forms of pre-paid calling to help inmates connect with loved ones when collect calling is not the best option.
This is the method I have recently used for my inmate to be able to make a collect call to my cell phone but they take a huge chunk out in fees from your account and they do disclose it before you accept or deny processing the transaction.
If you put $10.00 down for your inmate to call, your credit or debit card will be charged $19.65 and each inmate call from Faulkenburg to you if you live in Tampa costs $2.50 for about 15 minutes so now the inmate is left with $7.50 towards his/her collect phone calls to you.
You can always add more money into the inmates collect call account but remember, the higher the amount you leave for them, the higher the fees from ICSolutions.
Prepaid Calling allows you to set up an account that is associated with your telephone number. Funds in this account can be used to be for inmate calling to your telephone number only.
Debit Calling allows you to fund an account that is associated with one inmate. Only that inmate can place calls using funds in his or her Debit account, and that inmate can place Debit calls to any facility-approved telephone number.
For information about how these services work, please visit our Prepaid Calling page and our Debit Calling page.
7. After I add funds to a prepaid account, how long before I can begin receiving inmate phone calls?
You can begin receiving inmate phone calls as soon as your payment is received.
8. Can I have more than one Prepaid Calling account?
Yes, each Prepaid Calling account is associated with a telephone number. If you have more than one telephone number (for example, a home number and a cell phone), you can set up a Prepaid Calling account for each number. When an inmate places a call to a phone number, funds are drawn from the Prepaid Calling account associated with that number. Each phone number can be associated with only one Prepaid Calling account.
9. Can I receive calls from more than one inmate?
Yes. If you receive Collect or Prepaid account calls, you can accept calls from more than one inmate.
10. My phone call was inaudible or was disconnected prematurely. How can I get a refund for the cost of that call?
Please call our toll-free customer service hot line at your earliest convenience: (888) 506-8407. Customer Care Representatives are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to assist with these kinds of issues. Our representatives can investigate technical problems with your phone call – including listening to the call recording – to determine the cause. If it is determined that the problem was not caused by another external factor (for example, a bad cell phone connection), our Customer Care Representative can credit a refund back to the account that was used to pay for the phone call.
11. I no longer receive inmate phone calls. How can I get a refund of the money in my Prepaid Calling account?
Please call our toll-free customer service hot line at your earliest convenience: (888) 506-8407. Customer Care Representatives are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to assist with account setup, account closing, and refund requests. You may also submit your refund request in writing to:
ICSolutions
Attn: Customer Service Department / PrePaid Collect
2200 Danbury Street
San Antonio, TX 78217
Please include your name, address and the prepaid account phone number with your mail-in refund request.
12. How can I leave a voicemail message for an inmate?
Inmate Voicemail messaging is available at select correctional facilities. To determine if it is available where your inmate is housed, visit our Online Payment Processing page and click the Check Product Availability option. This service will allow you to search for a particular correctional facility and find out if Inmate Voicemail is offered at that facility.
If Inmate Voicemail is available, you will need to set up a Prepaid Collect account in order to leave messages for inmates. You can set up a fund a Prepaid Collect account from our Online Payment Processing page.
13. Are my phone calls recorded?
Yes, at most correctional facilities, all calls are subject to monitoring and recording. Exceptions are made in the case of confidential calls, such as those between and an attorney and their client. Please contact your correctional facility for specific policies.
14. I am an attorney. How can I ensure that my phone calls will not be recorded or monitored?
Please contact the facility to determine what information they require to process your request. After submitting proof of your status as an attorney (such as your Bar information), the facility will designate your telephone number as “confidential” and therefore will not be subject to monitoring and recording.
15. Does ICSolutions offer a Direct Billing option?
ICSolutions offers a direct billing option for law offices and bail bonds companies that receive high volumes of inmate collect calls from select facilities. Please contact ICSolutions at 1 (800) 464-8957 to inquire about setting up a Direct Billing account. Direct Billing representatives are available from 8:00AM to 5:00PM Central time, Monday through Friday.
16. How do I receive a refund for the remaining balance when my loved one is released?
You can request a refund for the remaining funds in your account by contacting our customer service folks. We’ll issue a full refund, minus an administrative fee of $2.99. Unused balances expire after a six-month period of inactivity (12 months for Maryland customers).
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Hi, firstly thankyou for your blog, It's been the source of almost all of my knowledge of the marchman act process. I just have a couple of questions i hope you wouldn't mind helping me with. I live in Tampa and filed a marchman act today for my brother. It was approved by the judge. He is currently not living at home and living with "friends" what will happen if he hides and refuses to answer the door to the police to be served or picked up?
ReplyDeletealso i was told it could take up to 10 days after him being served before going to court and being tested, (isnt 10 days long enough for him to get all the drugs out of his system?)
I was also told something about a sealed envelope that im supposed to not open and take downtown in person to the court house, what was tht for? I cant call them with any questions because they told me they will not discuss any information over the phone and i have to go in person to speak with them.
First of all,I do hope you read my blog titled, ONCE MARCHMAN ACTED YOUR HANDS ARE TIED.
ReplyDeleteNow, to answer your questions:
Wherever your brother is, two deputies will pick him up. If he refuses to open the door, they have the right to break it in. He or his room mates MUST open the door. Deputies now have in their hands an ExParte Order and will remove him by force if necessary; either way, he will surely be handcuffed placed in a squad car and taken to ACTS where he will be assigned a counselor to evaluate and drug test him. Opiates can take up to a month to leave the system if your brother has been a frequent user. Also, remember, if your brother is badly strung out, he will demonstrate withdrawal symptoms during his 5 days there and the counselors are well trained to recognize withdrawal symptoms for each drug. As for the sealed envelope you are not to open but to return to the Marchman Act Place you filed at the courthouse, it is the letter from the Detox Center your brother was placed at contining his assessment and suggestions to the court. Do not hesitate to return that the first or second day, if you wait any longer, your petition will be nullified. Please note that, once your brother is done with his Detoxification, he will be released to return home or where ever he chooses and it is up to him to respond to the Court Order to Appear before the judge, which will be sent to his last known address, there will also be one mailed to you. Back to the letter which is to remain sealed, I opened mine because I saw that my name was on the envelope but I also did inform them about that at the courthouse when I returned with it.
The letter may reveal things your brother has said to his counselor pertaining to his family, whether it be true or not. It will also say what your brother confessed to using, how long he has been using, whether he is an IV user or not, what the medical examinations revealed and finally the suggestion of the counselor to the court. The judge is given those documents which he will take under consideration when making his final decision regarding treatment when your hearing is set and which you must both attend--- Meaning, if the counselor suggested residential rehab, the judge will take that under consideration and may or may nor order it. If there are no beds available at DAACO which is in Tampa or PAR which is Pinellas County, your brother will be ordered to go for treatment anyway but as intensive treatment out patient. Intensive treatment out patient is every day inclusive of Saturdays and Sundays for his dose of either Methadone or Suboxone, which ever he prefers or can afford rather than going through further withdrawals. He will not be forced to chose either of them but when the addict is really bad, he will of course chose to medicate. I have to stress to you that if your brother does not show up to court, or to the treatment facility, he will then be found in contempt of court for failure to appear and he will have a bench warrant issued out for his arrest. Once found, the judge may likely hold him at Faulkenburg jail until there is a bed available for him or for 5 months/29 days.
ReplyDeleteI trust that you have read all my blogs regarding the Marchman Act because if your brother has no income, insurance or medicaid, it will more than likely be you who will have to pay for his daily doses which costs are $11 a day for methadone or $14 for Suboxone. Also, consider how will he be going to and from the treatment Center. They do not allow anyone into the classrooms tardy nor do they allow absences without a valid doctors note. Just so you know, after dosing, your brother will have to go into his assigned classroom and his day will be 4 1/2 hours of classes with a half hour for lunch. On top of this all, if the judge ordered it, youur brother may have to attend NA (Narcotics Annonymous) meetings as well; 90 meetings/90 days, plus find a sponsor and home Group. I hope this has been of help to you. It's a lot of work and he will need much support. Remember, addiction is a disease like cancer and even though it is frightening and maddening to his loved ones, it would be ludicrous to hope that a person suffering from cancer will get better overnight and this is also true for the addict. You may write to me whenever you need to vent. I have been there, understand your urgency, panic and need to vent to someone who understands. Thank God he is alive. God bless you both.
ReplyDeleteThankyou for responding so quickly, i have read all your blog on the marchman act process and keep re-reading it to make sure im familiar with everything.. i hadnt seen my brother in weeks and the cops told me he and his friends were evicted from the place they were staying so there would be no way for them to find him, i called all his friends and tricked him into coming home by telling him somebody was seriously ill (i know how wrong that is, but it was my only chance i had to get him home) once he was home i called the police who picked him up and took him to ACTS..unfortunately today is friday night and they wont give him suboxone until monday, which will mean 2 days of withdrawals for him. (his drugs of choice were opiates (oxycontin, roxys, dilaudids, only within the last few months did it turn to ivs, which is why i finally had no choice but to do the marchman act. Iam willing to pay for suboxone and i hope he will follow through with testing clean once he's released home. as you can imagine he absolutley hates me right now (although that didnt stop him from calling me an hour after he arrived at ACTS to ask me if i could hide xanax in the belongings im taking over for him tomorrow) i suppose that shouldnt surprise since he hasnt even been there a full day yet. He also used the "i may aswell kill myself" "how could you do this to me" guilt trip. I know that he would of definitley died without me doing this, and at least i know where he is now. It really is my last hope and last resort. after 6 years of different doctors and psycologist and thousands of dollars that i don't have down the drain. I will take him to every meeting, drive him wherever and whenever he needs me to, and do anything and everything i can to support him through this. thankyou for all the help. Thankgod you have this blog with so much information about the marchman act process, the only other sites with actual information were just lawyer referal sites that wanted money and offer "free consultations"...
ReplyDeletehi i just wanted to add...i was just looking other some of the information you had written about ACTs on the marchman act page and i noticed that on the second scanned filed/document that you posted you didnt black out the name, i just wanted to let you know incase you did it by accident. (i actually recognized the name too, tampas a small world i guess) but anyways i just wanted to make sure you knew about it. thanks again.
ReplyDeleteHello. I am very glad that you did what you did for your brother. They will give him meds at ACTS, they will not allow him to go cold turkey because it is very dangerous to do so. Probably Valium or something similar. I didn't know that I had not blackened out the name but you know what? All the better. Tampa indeed is a small town and all the bars on Dale Mabry belong to the young. They all know each other and if this example helps, as it seems to have helped your brother, then I feel blessed as my daughter would feel as well. she was actually thinking of doing a video blog herself about this insanity but of course, she just could not sit still long enough to even attempt it. She was too busy running around pawning her stuff and selling scrap metals and Lord knows what in order to get her drug of choice which was the same as your brothers. He is very lucky to have you. Hang in there, he will insult you and blame you for his freedom being taken away but after 3 weeks going to DACCO or PAR, you will see a change in him. Those poor souls whao are those rehabs always think they can get over but they are urine tested often. Once, my daughter thought she would be slick and since they do not hold classes over the week-end she thought she could drop an oxy and nobody would know since we had cout that Monday. Guess what? Judge Espinosa told one of his team to take her out and drop her (urine test her). Lo and behold, when they came back into the court room and he read the report, he told me I am guessing because they all dhave done it at the beginning but he did reprimand her sternfully and told her that she is never to do that again because any of those opiates, combined with the methadone could kill her and added that if she did it again, he would have to put her in county until there was a bed available for her at residential. On top of that, he had her dropped at DACCO 3 times a week to make sure. Stand your ground. It is better to have a brother who is pissed off at you but alive than a dead one at a much to early age.
DeleteI just fixed my error. I don't think it's a good idea to put her out there too far. Thanks for telling me.
Deleteyour welcome, & thankyou again, They did give him valium to help him sleep.. my only worry now is that if they release him from ACTS and send him home before the court date, or before going to dacco, I know he will take off and i wont see him again. I had only one phone call today and it was him telling me "im dead to him" ect (but that doesn't bother me, at least he's alive and safe where he is) At this point knowing what i know about the drugs he started taking it had gone beyond opiates to injecting drugs too, so i dont know if 3 weeks would be long enough, i hope they can keep him for a few months, im not sure how it works. Do you know if there's a way they can send him directly from ACTS to DACCO?
ReplyDeleteThey only gave him 3 weeks at DACCO? Did you already appear before Judge Espinosa? I find it unlikely that the judge would only order 3 weeks at DACCO as outpatient and not following with residential. If your brother takes off, which my daughter did as well he will slip up and be somewhere which he looks suspicious and the deputies will certainly spot him and ID him, once they see he has a Bench Warrant, he's off to Orient County and then once again in front of Judge Espinosa, who will probably keep him in Orient for Falilure to Appear to show Just Cause as to why he didn't go to DACCO. Failure to Show Just Cause as to why he did not show up at DACCO will give him the opportunity at court to tell the judge why he did not go to DACCO; now if he does not respond to that, he will be issued a Bench Warrant for Faiure to Appear which is a civil warrant; no misdemeanor or felony, it is a civil warrant indicating contempt of court and holds enough weight to be held in jail for 6 months, sometimes inclusive of a $600 fine. Sending him directly to DACCO would depend of availability of beds. There is usually a waiting period. Today makes one year since my daughter and I appeared before Judge Espinos for the first time after I Marchman Acted her. A friend of the familys whom she trusted and was not angry at, convinced her to go and drove here there. I was already seated in the waiting area outside of the court room when she showed up. I was shocked to see how wasted she was. Who appears to stand before a judge for a hearing which will depend on the judges decision as to thier Marchman Act in that condition? (Photo which I included in Once Marchman Acted Your Hands Are Tied). When the judge saw her in that condition, he would not even continue with the hearing. He became angered and order her to be taken back to ACTS for the week-end to detoxify once more and be returned to court on Monday for the hearing. She shot herself in the foot by appearing to court that way because to this day, she is still in the hands of this judge who probably thought she has been an addict for 10 years or so, when in fact, it began after her car accident in 2009. Don't worry, I am not sure how the judge renders his decisions but do have a feeling that he is harder on the females due to his own personal experience of losing a beloved daughter to this horrible addiction. I become angered by him because he is etched in cement. Hope he does right by your brother.
ReplyDeleteNo i haven't been in front of the judge yet, my brother is still in ACTS for 3 more days. tomorrow i will take the sealed envelope downtown. and then i guess i will get a court date. but the councelor at ACTS told me he is reccomending for my brother to first try getting clean at home so hes not even reccomending DACCO at all at this time. he said he wants to give my brother a chance to do it on his own at home. (which is ridiculous, given the drugs he's on) and also because my brother has no insurance at all and can't pay for DACCO. But if he messes up at home the councelor will then reccomend 60-90 days DACC0. ...I didn't know the judge had lost a daughter to this disease, its really sad but he has to understand each case is different and addicts will fall just like everybody else in life. I hope your daughter is doing better, its scary to think about how long this whole process can be dragged out for.
ReplyDeleteWell, you will have an opportunity to voice your concern to the judge and he will make the final determination. He does not have to comply with the counselor's suggestion; remember, he is the judge and has the final say. Regarding the judge losing a daughter to the disease, I am not sure about that but it is the word which I have heard many times while in court. Thank you for asking about my daughter. She is clean and sober these days but in order for her to get off the methadone which was giving her the scariest side effects and not have ing return to ACTS in order to do so, she went to Salt Lake City, Utah and with the help of a friend,detoxed from the methadone over there. There is always a price to pay for not following a court order though which is what she did by not returning to DACCO or to drug court for her to respond to her Order to Show Just Cause or Failure To Appear hearings which of course she couldn't because she was not here in Tampa and I did not have contact with her. I thought she was in Oregon. When she returned to Tampa, clean and sober, she wasn't even here for a month when a deputy picked her up. We appeared before drug court judge Espinosa and he ordered that she stay in custody for 5 months and 29 days, on top of that, he ordered Residential for her. We have to appear before him again on the 22nd of this month for him to determine her treatment plan. For now, she is at Faulkenburg prison and I visit her once a week. My heart is broken, I never thought I would see the day my daughter would be imprisoned for NOT commiting a crime. It has made me see the justice system in a different light.
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