In the JailATM site, you are able to send email to your inmate. However, if you want to do that you have to make an account in JailATM. You may also wonder about the cost to send an email to an inmate in JailATM. You are able to read the explanation about the cost of sending email in JailATM below.
The Cost to Send an Email through JailATM
According to the ST. Landry Parish Sheriff site, if you want to send a message to your inmate, you are required to have Message Subscription to fund your account to send messages or to open a ‘collect messages’. After you enable the Messaging Subscription, JailATM will bill your card for $5.00 worth of credits. So, every time you send a message to an inmate, the cost will be deducted from your $5.00 credits. How much does the sending email cost? It costs $.50 for each individual message.
Let’s say that you do not have enough credits anymore for sending a message. If so, JailATM will buy $5.00 more automatically in credits by using the card that you previously chose for the Messaging Subscription. However, it is important for you to note that you are able to cancel the auto-billing service at any time.
The Thing That You Have to Know About Messaging Subscription
If you want to send messages or to open a ‘collect message’, you must have a messaging subscription to fund your account. So, the thing that you have to do is to enable your Messaging Subscription where it is $5.00 worth of credits will be applied to your account. Every time you send a message, the cost will be deducted from your messaging credits.
What will happen if I do not have enough credits to send a message? If you do not have enough credits to send a message, JailATM will prompt you to buy more credits by using the card that you previously used for Messaging Subscription.
It is important for you to note that you will have to choose the amount $5, $10, or $20 that you want to apply towards messaging.
The Way to Send Message to an Inmate through JailATM
Here are the steps that you have to do to send a message to an inmate through JailATM.
- First, you have to sign in to your JailATM account by using your email address and password.
- After that, you have to click on My Account and then click on Messaging.
- Here, you have to click on the Send Message and then you have to choose the State and Facility. In addition, you are required to enter the last name or ID of the recipient. It is important for you to know that only facilities and states which support this feature will have this option.
- In this step, Search must be clicked by you and then click on the recipient from the list which is available there.
- Now, you have to type or paste the message that you want to send to the inmate.
- Finally, you have to click the Send button to send the message to your inmate.
You need to know that the message that you send may be reviewed before it is received by the recipient or your inmate.
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