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Visitor Policy

Interview with Tom, Sonja, Kurt and Marshall

JM: How often could you receive visitors?
Tom: On Saturdays, Wednesday mornings or Monday nights.
Sonja: you could recieve visitors tues, wed, thurs and sunday. if you're there monre then 15 days and have children, children only can visit sat.
Kurt: you couldnt have visitors in the wokrkhouse and im not sur about visitors in detention
Marshall: visitation was I believe 3 times a week. 2 evening visits and a Saturday morning. If I remember correctly you could have three visitors per visitation hours if the crowd wasn't too long..

JM: Was the check-in process lengthy for those who came to see you?
Tom: 20 to 30 minutes just to check in.
Sonja: Yeah you wanna make sure to get there really early because the lines get really long. Especially Hennepin county, it's a very busy and full jail. Visiting is 30 minutes but if there's an especially large amount of visitors the time could be reduced to 20.
Kurt: i dont know , no on could come to see me, i would have wanted any visitors to see me in their loicked up anyway
Marshall: Saturday mornings were the longest due to the shear volume of visitors and the whole getting patted down and everything that takes place prior to the non-contact, through glass only visit.

JM: What was the visiting environment like?
Tom: If was like those places you see in the movies. Glass wall with a phone to talk to the person on the other side.
Sonja: It was basically how you see it on movies or how you would probably picture it to be. A glass window in between the inmate and visitor with a phone on each side. It's a big reality check and sometimes hard to handle. The visitor doesn't usually want to see the inmate in that position usually. And the inmate doesn't want visitor seeing them that way. Plus it reminds the inmate of the outside.
Kurt: their was no visitor enviroment, you werent allowed to have visitors in the workhouse, the only thing you could do was right someone a letter or call them on the phone, their was no visiting people , but you could go out if you had medical appointments or thign like that
Marshall: It was basically a time to forget where you were... Occasionally I had a couple close friends come to visit but every Saturday without fail, my mom would come see me. On one hand your so glad to see them but on the other you feel so much despair and embarrassment at how they have to see you and when they leave. The 15 minutes feels like it goes by in 2 blinks.....

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