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Visitor Policy

Interview with Jon, Sabrina, Ronchie Boy, Gary, Lance, Seth, Liz, Nate, Duane and Aaron

JM: How often could you receive visitors?
Jon: 3 a week
Sabrina: i was not allowed visitors but i think one hour a week
Ronchie Boy: Don't know, didn't want any.
Gary: I never received any visitors so I dont remember I think it was once a day
Lance: Often... you just have to plan ahead....
Seth: Me personally, i didnt get visitors ever, on top of that you had to set your visits ahead of time to even have them.
Liz: 3 days a week but only during set times that you had to "kite" to set up.
Nate: 3 times a week an they can't just show up you have to scheduql it
Duane: I think it was twice a week over video. it was hard to remember to look at the camera and not the moniter.
Aaron: You can have 3 visits a week scheduled a week in advanced. I was only there 60 days so I didn't need any visitors. It's all video visits too, which is so impersonal at least to me.

JM: Was the check-in process lengthy for those who came to see you?
Jon: not really 15 min
Ronchie Boy: no clue
Gary: I remember hearing that it was pretty bad from other inmates as i can exlpain in the next answer (it was all via video confernce)
Lance: I didn't want to set up Visits... so I wouldn't know..
Seth: I dont really know if it was or not. as far as im concerned it probably was. i didnt see anyone get any visits until i went to trustee.
Liz: not really, they just had to go to the desk in visitation and fill out the form with your information and show there Id. then they would take you into a cubicle.
Nate: Coukd visit for an hour unless you had a cool guard but that was very often but ya an hour was the max to see them
Duane: heck how would I know? I was not on that side. no one said anything to cause me to think so. I could ask my mother though...
Aaron: N/A

JM: What was the visiting environment like?
Jon: sucks its all on video.
Ronchie Boy: It's over a video phone
Gary: well agaian it was all video conferencing the feeds were all ways messed up the wrong persons ect. other inmates would stand behind you and listen to every thing you and your visitor said and did it was really no different than a phone call in my mind unless you wanted to see a child
Lance: Its like a TV.. you just speak on a phone and the other person shows up on a screen...
Seth: the visiting environment was very awkward and i think that it was only because i had been used to the glass between me and the other person in king county. it was kind of complicated keeping focuse because of the video visits. and people hear your conversations. i dont know, i just know that personally i just didnt like it.
Liz: you could only see your visitors thro a triple glass partition or on a moniter and comunicate through phone hand sets, so depending on what booth you were in you were able to see the person thru dirty glass or on on a moniter, never face to face, and most cubicle hand sets were very hard to hear your visiter / and or see them very well.
Nate: A crappy little cell that looked like its been there 100 years coukd always hear people crying an it was sad always had to wait for the guard to let u out of it I had to wait 2 hours one timeit just was disgustingit just was disgustingI never want to do that again no fun I can tell you that
Duane: it was a video camera conference. small room. guards would forget you were locked in them and I would miss meals sometimes. even though the food sucked, after a while it still was needed. amazing what is good when you have nothing. a crappy cup of instant coffe was gold in there
Aaron: All video, not very personal.

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