Does anyone know how one stays at Wasco instead of being transfered out? Does it depend on the sentence?
ok....Help me Kconnor56!:confused:

Wasco has 2 mainline yards. The "A" yard which is a level 3 yard,(cells) & the "E" yard which is a level 1 yard. (dorms), ("B" yard is level 2 & 3 reception, "C" yard is level 1 reception, & "D" yard is level 4 reception. B & D are cells, C is dorms.This is a rough breakdown, & not exactly adheared to.). To be completely honest, it's all boils down to the luck of the draw. If a bed opens up, & your name pops out of the computer, it's yours. You can request it, but for the most part all request are ignored as are counslor recomendations. It means alot of extra paper work, & the computers aren't set up to handle request. Just about every prison has at least one person a day leaving from every yard, through parole, transfer, going to ad seg., or a SHU term. I have never gone to a prison I requested or sent to one my counslor recomended, nor do I know of anyone who has.

CDC has a computer, & every prisoner in reception is entered into it according to their point level. When a bed opens up at any prison, the computer spits out a name that coresponds with that point level. A check is done against the prisoners enemies list & if there are none at that prison, then off he goes. Now I have been told that each reception center feeds certain prisons, but I don't know if this is true or not. At the mainline prisons I have been at, I have been with prisoners who came from many different reception centers.

It can take any where from 2 weeks, to 2 years to get out of reception. I hope this helps.-------Ken

Thanks Ken.......yes this has helped.
But......is there a chance he may stay at Wasco. He knows who his counselor is but hasn spoken with her yet. It been 6 weeks. He is taking high bp meds....does that have to do with anything?

Yes there is a slim chance he will stay at Wasco. Just a slim one though. Taking BP meds just means he can't go to fire camp or CCF's.------------Ken

LJ
My husband was held up in reception at DVI. Before he spoke with his counselor because they did not have his records when he went for his physical and he did not have a blood test done. Once they figured this out he had the blood test and within a couple of days he seen his counselor and a few days after that he was sent to Corcoran SATFS

Vickie