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Visitor Policy

Interview with Larry, Tawnie and Henry

JM: How often could you receive visitors?
Larry: you could recieve visitors twice a week for an hour a piece if I remember correctly. I never got visitors with the exception of once when my mother brought up some pasture to make me give my life to jesus. That pissed me off!
Tawnie: Visiting times were available three times per week but each inmate can only receive two visits per week.
Henry: i think the rule was 2 times a day, or two times a week. i remember one week, someone came to visit and they couldn't because i had already used two visits that week.

JM: Was the check-in process lengthy for those who came to see you?
Larry: i dont knowthe answer to that question since I never got visitors
Tawnie: It required current valid picture ID, which posed a challenge for some of my friends to get together. But it was only a matter of the CO taking the license and running a 5-minute check on it. Sign up for visits was a different story. Sign ups start two hours before the actual visit times began and were usually filled within 5 minutes of being posted.
Henry: i dont know too much about the process people go through to visit someone in jail.i was always on the other side of the glass.from what i hear.they sign in, and wait,then im contacted, brought to the visiting room where they are usually seated.

JM: What was the visiting environment like?
Larry: you got to visit in a box/room seperated by glass and talked to your visitor with a telephone
Tawnie: Each visit was 20 minutes, and held in a room with an intercom and plexiglass separating the visitor from the inmate. No physical contact was allowed. No passing of letters, notes, money, nothing.
Henry: two chairs, and a piece of glass separating the two people. there is a row of maybe ten chairs,each has their little space,with a privacy wall , then bulletproof glass, and a phone next to the glass like in the movies. you pick it up, the person on the other side picks it up and you talk to each other.you have 15 minutes and then the phone hangs up.some times, if your lucky, the co's will let you stay for extra time especially if theres no one else expecting a visit that day.

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