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Subject: Send books and magazines

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Subject: Visitation

Call the facility visiting room during normal visiting hours and see when your inmate's visiting hours are. OR, ask your inmate when their days are.

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Subject: Inmate phone calls

Normally there would be no phone use during a lockdown. However, if the inmate has a phone in their cell, they can still use it, unless the lockdown was so serious they cut the phones off entirely.

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Subject: Inmate transfer

Yes, provided they are in good standing (no incident reports) and that there is a similar security level prison with available bed space.

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Subject: Visitation

The prison officials must maintain and ensure that there is no smuggling of contraband by the visitors. Strip searching is the most effective way to do that.

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Subject: Send inmate mail

Oh yeahhh, the freakier, the better :))

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Subject: General prison questions-terminology

The family has the option of picking up the body and making funeral arrangements. If no one comes for the body, there is a process for a burial in a public cemetery.

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Subject: Parole & probation

The Parole Board issues their finding, "Approved" or "Denied". Once they are approved, it is up to the facility as to when the inmate will be released. It takes at least two months, maybe a little more before that will actually happen

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Subject: Survive prison

You stayed ONE night and are writing about the conditions?!? Many state prisons in Florida, Louisiana, Texas and Arizona have no A/C. Evidently, the founding fathers forgot to include air conditioning for inmates in prison when they wrote the Constitution. Man up brother, stay out of the "heat".

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Subject: Arrest record search

You have to keep calling the facility, ask to speak to a counselor, the chaplain, the nurse... the warden's secretary. Someone will eventually listen to you and get you the information on your husband.

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