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Visitor Policy

Interview with Jenna, Mel, Bonnie, Ashley, Aaron, Walter, Shawn, Mimi, Saul, Heather, Ricky, Sterling, Doug and George

JM: How often could you receive visitors?
Jenna: Twice a week.
Mel: twice a week.
Bonnie: Never, I had visitors turned away after driving over 50 miles to see me. Being a rule that the jail has, it was overruled because appearently the King County Jail measures distance traveled, not by vehicle, but by flight...? I didn't realize we were living in a world where people can fly..
Ashley: I don't know
Aaron: During your alphabetical letters time slot which is ussuually 2. To 3 times a eek for an. Hour.
Walter: I'm not sure in visitation policy. I never had any visitors. I made my contact with the phones.
Shawn: I have never had a visitor visit me in jail but I think according to your name there were certain days and hours a person could visit you
Mimi: Visitation was allowed twice a week. For me it was Wednesdays and Saturdays for an hour each.
Saul: Visiting times occurred twice a week and lasted up to an hour. It was limited to one or two visitors per session
Heather: just depended on what floor you were on. i only had visiting twice a week but like the trustees got visiting 5 times a week,
Ricky: Several times per week. Visiting schedules were determined by the first letter of your last name.
Sterling: An ex girlfriend came to visit. I never told anyone. I wasnt in that long and most of my family is out of state.
Doug: I can't remember I think it was 5 days a week or maybe it was 4 days.
George: you could recieve visitors 2 to 3 times a week. you could see these people through a glass.

JM: Was the check-in process lengthy for those who came to see you?
Jenna: No. I never heard complaints from my family.
Mel: no cell phones. if you forgot, you had to rent a locker for 50 cents to put your cell phone in.
Bonnie: Wouldn't know, they were turned away.
Ashley: na
Aaron: I wouldn't know. I spoke with some of my people who said it was actualy quite simple compared to prison backround checks and pat downs.
Walter: Again, I'm not sure. I had nobody to come visit me. Other people said it seemed fairly easy but I don't have first hand knowledge.
Shawn: As I said in the last question I have never had a visitor while in the Jail so I have no idea what the process was
Mimi: No, you just have to go thru the metal detector downstairs then show your ID upstairs and fill out a short form about who you are visiting.
Saul: Check in process always depended on how busy they were. I don't believe that it was more than 15 minutes. I heard no complaints from those visiting me.
Heather: no not really. if you get their on time you fill out a form and bring it to the front desk with your id then you take an elevator to whatever floor they tell you too and u wait usually five minutes.
Ricky: I had several visitors over the 10 months I stayed at RJC but as far as I know, none had any problems with check in process or length of time.
Sterling: Not really. Nothing worth complaining about I obviously had bigger issues with the system and myself. I regretted throwing that chair more than anything. That was on purpose.
Doug: I dont know what the check in process was like cause I never asked anyone who came to visit me how long it took them before they could come and see me,
George: the people who came to see me told me that i took 1 1/2 to 2 hrs to get to come and see me in jail.

JM: What was the visiting environment like?
Jenna: Small, dirty, but closed in for privacy.
Mel: behind glass, with telephones to talk with.
Bonnie: Smelly, dirty, loud, cold.
Ashley: na
Aaron: Extremely loud. Obnoxious. Torn. Up with graffiti and names. Drawn. All up. And down. The desks where you are to ssit. The. Phones smelling. Disgusting of. The last nasty fucker who was. Breathiing into it. Your. Looking at your loved ones. While also seeing others in your perifierals. Its just an3 annoying experience.
Walter: I never had visitors. There was a video visit available I saw a few people use, but it still required the other person to be in the building not offsite. I would imagine its similar to the dorms themselves. I lived a long ways from where I was jailed so nobody wanted to come see me.
Shawn: I saw a couple of the visiting areas and there was a glass partition with phones on both sides of the glass where the two people, the inmates and the person visiting could talk to each other.There was no physical contact between the two people who were there in the visit
Mimi: They bring you to a very small room like a closet they is glass all the way around with glass in between you and your visitor, like on TV. You have to hold the phone to your ear to speak to each other, and you can see everyone else with their visitors.
Saul: The visiting room was a series of locked cubicles glassed off from the visitor. The stool to sit on for the inmate was small, hard, and very uncomfortable. The phone handset was on a cord that was too short to be able to sit up straight so you had to bend over half on half off the stool to listen to the receiver. The communication was monitored.
Heather: thick scratched dirty glass inbetween you and the visitor. a short cord connected to a filthy telephone and a crappy stool you get to sit on. half the time you can not even hear on the phones and the visiting booths are so dirty and so freaking cold. it sucked
Ricky: Visiting rooms were very small but very well ventilated and the phones usually worked well. In the blocks I was in visiting rooms were on the second floor/second level of the block. They seemed to be fairly sound proof when you had another visitor in the booth next to you.
Sterling: You sit behind a screen and just talk. No touching or nothing and I would have a hug or something. Some girls in Snohomish flash all the guys. The girl that came to visit me wasnt doing that but I asked. She was an ex and she told me I was dumb to go back to my babies mama.
Doug: im not sure what the visiting enviroment was like cause i never had any visitors so I never went to the visiting room but im sure it sucked and is like all the other ones. a little room with glass in between you and you have to talk to eachother through a phone.
George: the visiting environment for me was a 4 by 6 room where i could look at the people who came to see me through bullet proof glass, and talk to them over a phone. the visitors were a similar environment, only they could exit their areas when they wanted to.

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