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Visitor Policy

Interview with Stan, Rich and Claudia

JM: How often could you receive visitors?
Stan: Once
Rich: Inmates can receive visits only once per week, at designated times on a specific day of the week. Some 'trustees' might be allowed multiple visits, and extending visiting periods. Visits 'officially' last a half-hour, but in practice the jail staff might end a visit in as little as 20 minutes, or upwards of 45 minutes to almost an hour, for no apparent reason at all.
Claudia: You could have visitors once a week. The girls visitation is on mondays from 1pm-4pm and then again from 530pm to 9pm But your visitor had to get there at least an hour early to be able to get a slot for visiting on the next group or befor time was up and each visit is only a half hour long, you can have up to 4 adults pervisit and 3 children per visit

JM: Was the check-in process lengthy for those who came to see you?
Stan: No
Rich: Yes. There may be many visitors waiting to visit with an inmate during a specific allowed visiting day and time period, with only a limited number of [non-contact only] visiting rooms. Visitors must check their possessions in a locker before being allowed within the actual custody portion of the jail. I believe the lockers are $0.25 or $0.50 to use. Cell phones are not allowed, a LEIN (law enforcement information network warrant check) is run by the jail office on any visitor, and the visitor must appear on the allowed visiting list, which an be changed only once every 30 days by the inmate (and has a maximum allowed number of specified visitors of 5 persons total). As an exception, law enforcement, governmental agent, corrections agents, your legal team or lawyer, a jailhouse chaplain, and some outside services like mental health can visit with you, usually in a contact-allowed room setting, virtually any time day or night, all days of the week.
Claudia: No they had to go to the Check in desk and tell the officer the name of the inmate they wanted to visit and then give the officer there identification card or lisence so that the offcier could run a chekc on there name to be sure thye didnt have any warrants. sometimes there was a small line to get to the front of the officers desk but if there was it normalyt went very quickly. if you did have a warrant when trying to visit they detain you until they sorted it out and if it was a warrant out of that county they would areest you until you could see a judge.

JM: What was the visiting environment like?
Stan: By phones with a yhick glass between us.
Rich: The visiting room is something like a 'double cell', with the visitor and inmate on each side of the cell, separated by thick plexiglass material, and with a telephone headset for each person to use. If you receive multiple persons visiting you, they must all come at once and fit within the visiting booth/room together. You cannot receive multiple individual visits from different persons at different times on the same visiting day. Exceptions, again, are for your lawyer or any official business/government purpose or allowed religious visit, which are usually full-contact and unrecorded/not directly monitored, in a special set of rooms near a control/command center (A.K.A. 'the cage'). Non-privileged visits (i.e., those with loved ones/friends/associates) are only non-contact and are always recorded both by camera and on audio recordings. The jail is currently replacing non-contact visits with a 'VizVox' webcam electronic video phone system. For nonofficial/lawyer visits, you will soon only be doing the equivalent of a Skype session (for 15 minutes to a half hour per week) with a loved one, and not be able to witness them their in the old visiting rooms in three dimensions. This is a bummer, and it takes away one aspect of the privacy you may have had from other inmates, but this electronic visiting is popular and has been around for a while in other jails, so I'm told.
Claudia: Its a big room with a Roq of glass windows set up with seats and a phone for each inmate and visitor You can touch or anything like that all visits are done through the glass and over the phone. and the visiting area always smelled terrible. Also there are phones in the holding cells BUT they hardly ever worked! so you were lucky if they did and you got make a phone call out to let family know where u were. most of the time a few women would be brought in from the holding cells crying because they couldnt make a phone call to there family or kids and have never been to jail and didnt knw there was also a phone in the units for them to use

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