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.....
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