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.
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.
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.
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.
Subject: Send inmate mail
Oh yeahhh, the freakier, the better :))
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.
Subject: Parole & probation
The statement from the bench is meaningful but the date itself is not carved in stone the way most families hope it is.
What happens at a parole hearing is that the board issues a formal finding, either approved or denied. An approval is the legal green light for release, but it is the beginning of an administrative process rather than an automatic release order. The specific date mentioned in the hearing is a target, not a guarantee, and several steps...
Read moreSubject: Survive prison
This is actually a legitimate legal question that has been litigated seriously in federal courts, so it deserves a real answer beyond the obvious jokes about the founding fathers and central air.
The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, and courts have held that prison conditions can rise to that level when they pose a substantial risk of serious harm. Heat is not automatically unconstitutional, but extreme heat has been found to meet that standard in specific circumstances, particularly when...
Read moreSubject: 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.
