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Visitor Policy

Interview with Hugh, Cameron, Sarah, Roy and Janicki

JM: How often could you receive visitors?
Hugh: It goes by your last name. If you are A-D you get Tues and Thurs, and then there is a set time on the weekend.
Cameron: I do not know. I never had a visitor. My girlfriend had a new guy within days after I was arrested.
Sarah: Once a week, for about 30 minutes. Your lawyer can come as often as necessary which usually isn't very often.
Roy: couple to few times a week an selected days during selected visiting hours for about a half hour ata time
: I never had anyone visit me in jail. I don't want my family to see me like that. I think you can get visits 2x's a week.

JM: Was the check-in process lengthy for those who came to see you?
Hugh: You have to make sure you don't have any warrants when you come, because you won't leave. You come in, sign in, they search you.
Cameron: How the hell would I know. I just told you that I never had a visitor. I do understand why there is a word minimum, but when it absolutely does not apply there should be a few questions that could be skipped. But, there are the required words.
Sarah: Yes, you have to stand in line at the main entrance. Again yo have to fill out of form with social worker with list of person who will visit. If they weren't on the list they could not visit. Then they had to wait to be taken up in an elevator to the floor accompanied by staff. Then they had to wait in a little room for the deputies to bring you from the cell area.
Roy: no not really,i think after doing the same routine day in and day out the gaurds stop giving a shit after a while and dont search as intimately as perhaps they should
: I would imagine. Nothing is quick at painless at Wayne county. There are so many little, ridiculous rules that you need to follow, it's horrible.

JM: What was the visiting environment like?
Hugh: The visits are non-contact through glass. There are five or six booths on each floor.
Cameron: Jesus Christ. I just went over this in the last question. If a person never received a visit there is no way they could possibly answer this question. I will use my imagination. I assume it looked like the visiting room from the movie "TWINS", starring Danny Devito and Arnold Schwarzenegger. There were probably telephones to speak to each other because there was most likely glass to kepp you apart.
Sarah: It is a grungy dirty jail. You are in a little room on a steel seat with no back. If you have more then one visitor sometimes they had an extra chair sometimes the visitor had to stand. There is a glass partition with a little area round area to facilitate talking. Uncomfortable and cumbersome.
Roy: very family oriented,they do a good job of giving you a little bit of privacy,which is hard to come by in jail,you cant touch your visitor or anything,but just being able to have private discussions with someone you care about in such a trying time is pivotal for anyones well being
: It was awful. Just awful. You sit on one side of the glass while your visitor sits on the other side. There is no contact at all. There isn't even a telephone to use to hear each other. You have to yell thru an awkwardly placed hole in the glass.

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