FAQ

what about if I cannot fill all the information requested

Don’t be afraid to leave it half-empty if you can’t answer all the questions. You, or someone else, can update all the entries at all. We think it’s important to keep a collaborative ways to full fill and share the information.

how create a new entry (if there is not signed in the website the prison/prisoner)

If you add a new prisoner entry but you cannot find the prison where this person is detained you can leave it empty, finish to fullfill the form and submit it. After you can go to the prisons section, add the missing prison and in the process to fullfill the form you can associate the prisoner(s) inside that. When you did it the prison will be automatically added to the prisoner page you have already created before. Same process is valid in the other direction (if you add a prison but you cannot find the prisoners that are detained there).

difference between chosen name / full legal name

Some people want to be called by a name (chosen name) that is different than the one that the state recognizes (legal name).

We use the chosen name to index the prisoners in the website and also is better to use that inside the letter/postcard you want to send but normally prisons don’t accept and don’t give the letter to the person if there is not the full legal name signed in the mail envelop.

what is "any others sentences"

How many years/months/weeks/days have the prisoner to do in prison for other trials (this don’t count the trial for what was arrested principally)

what we mean with trial status

Current trial situation regarding the reason of arrest. not the sentence the person have received.

what we mean with "day of release" // how is the date of release calculated?

It is the approximate count of how much time the person still has to spend in prison, all sentences combined

what is the difference between restrictions and regimes

Regimes can have restrictions that are applied at all the prisoners in that specific regime. With restrictions is when this are applied to the specific prisoner but probably not at all the other prisoners in the same prison/section.

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