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Interview with Raymond, Brenda, Reta, Ronnie, Germz and Jimmy

JM: How often could you receive visitors?
Raymond: Every Saturday or Sunday depending on your last name.
Brenda: every weekend. most people didnt get visits because it was to far away from there hometown we were in San Diego and some people were from shasta county so there wasnt many visits. Just the local people had visits.
Reta: I think it was a couple of times a week. I only got one visitor while I was there.
Ronnie: You would get two a week, for half an hour.
Germz: you can have 2 visits a day 3 days out of the week and one visit on the weekend
Jimmy: I believe it was twice per week, but I was not there long enough to have anyone visit.

JM: Was the check-in process lengthy for those who came to see you?
Raymond: It was like a couple of hours.
Brenda: no not at all because the visitor were mainly repeat visitors the officers get to know the visitors and dont hold them up at all.
Reta: Pretty long. Maybe an hour or so.
Ronnie: Pretty quick maybe about 15 minutes.
Germz: in some places they had to go through alot one time my girl friend had to leave and come back when she took out all her piercings one she couldnt take out so she had to get stripped out ie she wanted to see me
Jimmy: There were lots of forms to fill out, especially if one wanted to give something to an inmate. I remember trying to drop off a book for a friend inside and being told that it was forbidden.

JM: What was the visiting environment like?
Raymond: They had like, picnic tables made of steel.
Brenda: we had an out door visiting area with picnic benches and BBQ. when it rained we went in to the cafeteria,
Reta: Common area for contact visits.
Ronnie: It was plexiglass with phones.
Germz: the visiting area was discusting. it was a wall of windows with partitions seperating each one. the windows were always dirty and there would be used napkins all over the place from inmates doing what they gotta do while looking at there women. the phones rarely work they are always really staticky
Jimmy: I never saw the visiting area, apart from the entrance hall, which was staffed by a rude, cruel old hag. It looked very institutional (surprise!) and bleak. It was certainly not the sort of place that looked appropriate for family visits, especially not for inmates with children. The whole place seemed to be designed to keep people out.

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