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Opally

Juat curious if inmates in the same facility had the same phone number when they call? Let’s say you save a number under a specific inmate name, would that same contact name show up if a different inmate called or would it be an unsaved number? Hopefully my question makes sense. I’m only asking because how would you know if a random inmate from the same facility is calling instead of your pal...?


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FrankieBones

@Opally If they do call all you have to do is answer the phone once and press 7 to decline the call and they will never be able to call you again.

 
FrankieBones

I got two or three different federal numbers and then I associated them with the same contact on my phone, it was a bit of a pin the donkey on the tail experiment but now it comes up with her name rather than the number every time. The only deal is that I can't call back on that number.

 
ST4s

You can always decline the call after the announcement, but you wanna talk about bad with voices? On one call, on Christmas Day no less, I fumbled the phone during the caller announcement part, so I missed it. And this was federal, so, you get the picture. For the entire conversation, I thought I was speaking with one friend when in fact it was another. Having had a little too much holiday cheer beforehand was no excuse. I spent until September apologizing. WORST. FUCKUP. EVER!!!

 
Opally

 

The thing is, I don’t want to answer the phone if it’s someone completely different, but I guess I can always deny it once I hear the beginning. I’m only asking since I’m thinking about ceasing communication due to certain things and I didn’t want him to spread my number to random people and I end up answering the calls, you know? The person I’m referring to didn’t put his name when it says “call from _____” so I didn’t know if others did the same or what. I’d be so humiliated if I was having a random conversation with someone I thought was him! I’m so bad with voices.

Also, he’s in state prison so it comes up with a phone number. I just didn’t know if it changed per inmate or something.

 
ST4s

I have no idea, but sometimes the letters from there to here break all land speed records. Sometimes I get them the very next day. Crazy!

 
Northernyank

I wonder if he's in a facility that all of the mail is sent to a 3rd party to be scanned and checked for contra band? My husband is slightly over 2 hours from me, but his letter takes a week to get to me, and I think they only mail once a week, because I'll get 5 letters in on the same day. He gets mine in batches of 2 or 3.

 
ST4s

Bizarre! And here’s one for ya: one of my friends is in a federal facility 50-some-odd miles from where I live, and his letters to me are postmarked in my city! What is up with that?!?

 
Northernyank

@ST4s I noticed that when his counselor called me, it identified a location that is 70 miles away from his facility. I asked her if she had an extension (which is commonplace) and she said no, you have to just call the facility and ask for her. 

 
ST4s

My experience with federal is the caller ID always comes up "no caller ID" no matter who calls and no matter where from. For my friends in state facilities (various states), the caller ID seems to stick even after they've transferred intrastate, from one facility to another. I've been able to associate those numbers with their contact info on my mobile phone, e.g. their name and photo fills the screen whenever those calls come in.

Two callers from federal, or two callers from the same state, never mind the facility? There'd probably be no way of knowing who's calling until you listen to the recorded announcement at the beginning of the call.

And this is rare, and unsanctioned, but a couple of times I've received calls from a friend, where the front end recorded announcement was somebody else's name and voice - somebody I didn't recognize. I took the call anyway, and it turned out to be my friend who “borrowed” someone else’s phone account/minutes. He was out of phone time for the month and there was a family emergency in-progress that he needed quick intervention on. This was risky for him to do, but when it’s an emergency, to hell with the rules.

 
Northernyank

When you answer your phone, a pre-recorded message comes on telling you an inmate (their recorded name) from such and such facility is calling you and if you will accept. 

The facility my husband is calling from is entirely different as it comes across as (no caller ID) and when I answer he's right there. During a 15 min call, we only get a brief pre-recorded message, twice. 

 
FrankieBones

There's usually two or three of them, but once you add them all to your contacts it will come up on your phone when they call.

 
raspberry

I can't answer if the number would appear as the same (I'd assume so though), but when the call connects it should say the name of the inmate who is trying to call you followed by prompts to accept the call.