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Someone has to turn what you do inside into dated entries a case manager, judge, or probation officer can read. My mom typed every page I mailed home from Taft. Most families don't have three free hours a night.
My mom's kitchen table
My mom typed every page I mailed home from Taft.
She sat at her kitchen table with my handwriting, which was terrible. I broke my right wrist three times playing baseball and had two surgeries. When I crossed out a paragraph or squeezed a sentence up the margin, she had to figure out where it belonged.
Then I'd call home and ask the same question. "Did you post it?"
She did. Every night, for months.
Most people going in now don't have someone with three free hours a night. A spouse is running the house alone. The kids still need rides to school.
So our team does that job.
Someone inside calls with updates: the class he started teaching, the book he finished, the week that went badly. We record the call and take notes. From his words, we write the next entry for his Prison Professors profile and for the record he'll share with his case manager, judge, and probation officer.
He sees every entry before anyone else does. We email it, read it to him over the phone, and mail it.
We write only what he's doing. If he isn't teaching the class, it doesn't go in. Case managers read these profiles, and they can tell.
If nobody at home can do what my mom did, let's talk about who will.
Schedule a free call with our team.
Questions people ask
Can someone else write my profile entries?
They can type and organize them, but every entry has to be what you actually did. Case managers can tell when it isn't.
How do I send updates from prison?
By mail, phone, or the prison email system. Keep each update specific: what you did, when, and what's next.
Read next: Part 9: What Does Your Federal Prison Case Manager Want From You?
Written by
Justin Paperny
Founder White Collar Advice
