TRULINCS FAQs
Publication year:
2008
| Cataloged on:
Aug. 28, 2008
ANNOTATION: Information is provided about the Trust Fund Limited Inmate Computer System (TRULINCS) program used by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to "provide inmates with some limited computer access, to include the capability to send and receive electronic messages without having access to the Internet" (p. 1). Answers are given for the following questions: What is TRULINCS?; Do inmates have access to the Internet?; Who funds TRULINCS?; Do all BOP Facilities have access to TRULINCS?; How do I correspond with an inmate by e-mail?; What can I do if I have not received a system-generated message, but the inmate added me to their contact list?; I accepted the system-generated message, but the inmate had not been notified; I tried to approve or refuse communication with an inmate by clicking the appropriate response, but nothing happened; Is e-mail correspondence monitored?; Are there rules?; What can I do if I want to stop corresponding with an inmate?; and What can I do if I accidentally declined to correspond but actually want to correspond?