Alcatraz TV Show 2012

I can't believe that it has taken me this long to get the DVD of this show from the states, As I love everything to do with this famous prison. I have watched the first episode and I love it. Its a shame that they will not be making any more. What we have here are the mug shots of the inmates from different episodes, and a promo still.
I will review the series when I have watched it all.

Mock set up of Prison Riot

This is a video from Hungary. It is a mock set up, to show how guards deal with inmates in a riot setting.

Two kinds of visiting UK Prisons

Here are two photos that show the inmates that have visits in UK Prisons.

The top photo is of the convicted inmates that have visits, these visits can range from once a month in closed conditions. To three times per week open visits. But convicted inmates are housed in prisons far from their home towns at the beginning of their sentences. this gets shorter as the years come down and with good behavior. Then in the last few years of their sentence they can be housed in a prison near their home.
When an inmate is convicted he must wear a bright coloured  vest or blue or yellow sash that must be kept on through the whole visit, to stop escapes taking place.

The unsentenced inmate has a lot more visits with his family and his lawyer. To have the inmates lawyer visit they don't have to have a visiting order. These visits can be held in the family visiting room or in a closed room, but a guard will always be in the room too.
As for the inmates family they can visit on any number of days. But will always need a visiting order with them. The unsentenced inmate is most likely to be housed in his local prison.

Sam Walker Inmate UK

These are two photos of inmate Sam Walker the first one is his Mug Shot and the other is inmate Walker smoking a spliff. (Drugs) in his cell, which he is on a charge for. You can also put inmate Walker on a charge for having a mobile phone in his cell. This guy will be spending a few weeks in the hole for this light pleasure.

Visiting Jail/Prison UK Part 2

Visiting an  inmate in Jail/Prison is different in each country that you go too, saying that its different from Jail to Prison in each of these country's. Here I want to go a little more into the day you visit a inmate and what he has to go through for that visit with his loved ones.

In a past post I talked about how I visited an inmate friend, which was from my side of the visit and what I went through to get to the visit. In the UK their are no Jails only Prisons and the guilty are locked up with the untried.

The untried inmates are given a lot more visits with family and also lawyers which is set on different days to the convicted inmates. All inmates must fill out a visitor's list. This could take a number of weeks so that the Prison can make police checks.

When a inmate wants to have a visit he must always fill out a "visiting order". On this visiting order it shows the Prison to visit, it also shows the time of the visit and the time to be at the Prison gates. If you are late or come on the wrong day then you will not get in. If the inmate has been in trouble and is on "Report" then you will not get in.

In the time that the visiting order has been sent out the inmate could have been moved to a different Prison.
Their was a story of an inmate that sent a visiting order to his family, on the day of the visit the inmate was told that he was to be moved to a different Prison. On the way out of the prison gates in the Prison van the inmate could see his family waiting to go into the Prison for their visit, with no way of telling them he was being moved. In that case it was just hard luck. The family lost their visiting day.
Just one of the many hardships a inmates faces.

The inmate is only called to the visiting room when the family are in the visiting room.

Part two to come.....

    

Thailand Chains

These are the chains that are used to take inmates to and from court, and also used in the first six months of their sentence, Death Row inmates have these chains on all the time.

Frisking Inmates.

Frisking this happen's in both Jail/Prisons where a guards pat down one inmate at a time. With his clothes on. As these three photos show.
Female guards can frisk male inmates, but if their needs to be a strip search then a male guard must do it.
The inmates can be frisked at any time of the day, if a guard thinks something is going on then it can lead from a frisk into a strip search.
The inmate can also be asked to place his hands on the wall and his legs wide apart. The guard then starts at the collar and then works down the inmates body lastly asking the inmate to remove his socks and shoes.
This can takes  a matter of minutes, if it is done right and then the inmate can move on.