I am not sure I understand why anyone can be barred from Visiting a Family Member who is in Prison. I can see that that person should not be a trouble maker or try to make problems for the DOC during a visitation, but if that person is important to the inmate, then why should the inmate not be allowed a visit.
How can someone who has not done anything wrong in 17 or 20 years be barred from visitation with his son because of that one mistake.

I really have had blinders on. I truly believed that people in the Justice System and DOC were fair. There is nothing Fair about such a policy..... There is nothing Fair about stopping an X-employee of the DOC from visiting a Loved One just because they were employees.

To begin with, I would never work for a DOC. I think all employees they have that are loyal are loosers. They could not work any other place because their EGO would get in the way.

What can be done to stop these people from being so Cruel to Human Beings.

Donna

The First Poll on PTO! Hoorah.. How did you do that, anyways?? LOL! j/k! But I am happy to see one actually in effect!

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unfortuneatly visitation can be denied for any of a million things and it won't change unless we start working for it. Does the prison he's in have a visitation committee? If not, why don't you try to form one.

I think it's really stupid to deny someone to visit their loved one in prison. Sometimes all this sounds like a sceme. Because if the prisoner doesn't get the visit he expected, this might frustrate him and make him angry. Then he might need just a small thing to get into a fight. So when he got into a fight, they can punish him again, by not allowing any visits for months. And so forth and so on. I start to believe more and more that the prisons have all sorts of stupid rules made up, only to make sure that they prisoners don't get out or can be punished as much as possible.

Has anyone ever heard of CO's that try to run a prisoner up, by telling stories to other prisoners. They try to make the others beat that one person up. I've been hearing these stories more and more lately....:argh