OK girls. now we have our own thread and its more confusing haha.

so who was visiting this weekend? it was a madhouse and i know we all waited really long periods of time to get in to see our loved ones for very short periods of time.

the co outside told me and i know a few others that they just didnt expect to have so many people and werent prepared.

since they werent prepared im sure they will do something different next week, but in the meantime what do we do?

do we have to start showing up at 4 am to get in before 11 am? anyone with any ideas?

Hey girl, glad to hear you got to visit and I've been hearing from others that this is the way it was too. Kind of makes me glad I can't go :D . But a word from the wise, Don't get frustrated. Maintain your calm cause they are terminating for every little thing these days. This prison seems to be very disorganized with everything and I wish there were a way that we could come up with some stable, concrete information that wouldn't change next week. If there is anything I can do to help let me know cause right now all I got is time on my hands. Also sorry I didn't get back to you on your pm but I went home from work early on Friday and I don't have the internet at home.

It was REALLY bad yesterday!!! Despite all the people I was #48. I got back to the visiting room just after 9. And I was so grateful that, my visit wasnt terminated early. It was real close though!!! I dont know what they can do. It will be hard for anyone, as some visitors were taking cuts in front of people who were already parked outside the gates, and parking in the front parking lot to get in line earlier than thoses of us who parked where we are supposed to. I know that a lot of people were complaining. I think they should give out numbers as you park outside the gate or as you pull in, its only fair, first come first serve. If this continues, there will be problems. I do know this weekend I will leave earlier!!!

hey dont worry it ok my internet at home hasnt been working so well either! haha

i dont know what we can do; i was totally calm though becuase i kind of expected it to happen. . . i drove up fri night so sat i got there earlier and it wasnt as bad but sunday was really bad. but i cant afford to stay overnight every week.

oh girl trust me though, i told him too straight off when he came out look they are terminating really easy so dont even mess around alright; he was really good ;)

i think the rules are gonna keep changing until they get it down; but its just weird cuz no one knows what to do; suddenly people start the line up at 6 am, then it goes to 5 am and befor eyou know it we all end up out there sleeping in our cars and fighting over who gets the first passes and that would stink; we are all there for the same reason and eventually we will all get in; i dont know i have seen it get ugly in other places like that and i would have to have it happen here since our thread we are all well, i dont know how to say it.

im not sure what if anything we could suggest to them to help with the process but there has to be a way to make this go smoother; im sure they were stressed and frusterated too.

and have you heard anything yet?????????
Hey girl, glad to hear you got to visit and I've been hearing from others that this is the way it was too. Kind of makes me glad I can't go :D . But a word from the wise, Don't get frustrated. Maintain your calm cause they are terminating for every little thing these days. This prison seems to be very disorganized with everything and I wish there were a way that we could come up with some stable, concrete information that wouldn't change next week. If there is anything I can do to help let me know cause right now all I got is time on my hands. Also sorry I didn't get back to you on your pm but I went home from work early on Friday and I don't have the internet at home.

Im reading about how crazy the visiting is here but what type of situations are you exactly experiencing, my husband just went to r&r hes leaving for delano on thursday! So any words of advise?

is he going to Delano 2 (Kern Valley State Prison) or NOrth Kern because there are 2 prisons in Delano.

i think the visiting just got crazy this week at KVSP because so many people got classified all at once.




Im reading about how crazy the visiting is here but what type of situations are you exactly experiencing, my husband just went to r&r hes leaving for delano on thursday! So any words of advise?

hey dont worry it ok my internet at home hasnt been working so well either! haha

i dont know what we can do; i was totally calm though becuase i kind of expected it to happen. . . i drove up fri night so sat i got there earlier and it wasnt as bad but sunday was really bad. but i cant afford to stay overnight every week.

oh girl trust me though, i told him too straight off when he came out look they are terminating really easy so dont even mess around alright; he was really good ;)

i think the rules are gonna keep changing until they get it down; but its just weird cuz no one knows what to do; suddenly people start the line up at 6 am, then it goes to 5 am and befor eyou know it we all end up out there sleeping in our cars and fighting over who gets the first passes and that would stink; we are all there for the same reason and eventually we will all get in; i dont know i have seen it get ugly in other places like that and i would have to have it happen here since our thread we are all well, i dont know how to say it.

im not sure what if anything we could suggest to them to help with the process but there has to be a way to make this go smoother; im sure they were stressed and frusterated too.

and have you heard anything yet?????????
You know what though, even when they hand out the passes with numbers on them they don't always go in that order. I only know because sometimes when I would go there would be people that had been in there before me and they would call me first. Boy would I get some looks. I know they have a right to be angry but it wasn't my fault. I too agree that they should be handing out passes to the people in their cars that way you could also go get breakfast or whatever and not have to wait there all morning. Thats why I was so frustrated that day that I was going to have to go back to my car and get back in line behind all of those people :eek: but believe me I have learned my lesson well. Has anyone heard if inmate family counsel has started yet?? I know how you feel. I would wake up at 2:30 a.m. just to get there on time. I'm getting my beauty rest now though :D . Nope I haven't heard anything yet but he has until the 15th of March to respond. I'm not sure if him taking so long is a good thing or not. I want to be hopeful because I mean anyone can see that the time given was way too much but who knows how the warden thinks. I believe we are judged a little on being the loved ones of inmates whether they mean to or not. I also don't want to get my hopes to high for them to come crashing down when I get the paper that says I have to wait the whole six months. Either way I just wish the letter would get here already cause I'm tired of not knowing.

what the cop outside told me was they had 2 poeple inside processing and each one was doing it differently; some were going by the number on the pass; others just in the way they were coming out of the box. . . also on saturday the co outside had to go in and tell them inside that if they called someone and they didnt respond right away, to come outside to call them because there were so many people outside.

so i think the biggest issue is simply getting an order to what they are doing so that each co is doing the same.

i asked the co about inmate family counsel he said it has not started yet but hopefully will be soon.

i agreee with you; i tried to be calm and respectful anyway but i learned a great lesson from your experience. i also think we do get judged becaue we are the family of the inmates; though i will say that the co's i have talked to over here have been very nice and courteous so far; but then again i get mad when i think of what they did to you. so yeah. . . .

i just cant get up at 230; with as many kids as i have, i cant get to sleep until 11 pm at the earliest; i try for 9 or 10 but its impossible. too many kids in too small of a house. so it makes it a lot harder for me to be able to get up that early and stuff. so i guess i will just be one of the late comers and only have short visits with him cuz i dont see any other way for it to happen.

You know what though, even when they hand out the passes with numbers on them they don't always go in that order. I only know because sometimes when I would go there would be people that had been in there before me and they would call me first. Boy would I get some looks. I know they have a right to be angry but it wasn't my fault. I too agree that they should be handing out passes to the people in their cars that way you could also go get breakfast or whatever and not have to wait there all morning. Thats why I was so frustrated that day that I was going to have to go back to my car and get back in line behind all of those people :eek: but believe me I have learned my lesson well. Has anyone heard if inmate family counsel has started yet?? I know how you feel. I would wake up at 2:30 a.m. just to get there on time. I'm getting my beauty rest now though :D . Nope I haven't heard anything yet but he has until the 15th of March to respond. I'm not sure if him taking so long is a good thing or not. I want to be hopeful because I mean anyone can see that the time given was way too much but who knows how the warden thinks. I believe we are judged a little on being the loved ones of inmates whether they mean to or not. I also don't want to get my hopes to high for them to come crashing down when I get the paper that says I have to wait the whole six months. Either way I just wish the letter would get here already cause I'm tired of not knowing.

Well I only would get up at 2:30 cause I would go and pick up a lady to go with me in Burbank which is an hour out of my way. I hear you one the kids thing though. I have two of my own but I always went when they were with their dad. In the begining I couldn't sleep because I was so excited so that would be hard on me or when I would go clubbin the night before I wouldn't be able to sleep at all. But thats my own fault.

i hear ya. i used to ride with soemone and since it was so far we would go the night before and have a room and split the cost which was cool but still its only a 2 hour drive; i dont like going up friday night and spending the money on a room unnecessarily.

i think i am going to just get up at 430 and leave and i should get there about 630-700 and wait and hopefully i will get in by 9 ish that way.

haha i learned not to go out or stay up late the night before real fast haha.

my kids, well 2 of em i adopted so they dont have dads to go to; my other teenager goes to her dad once in a while but not so much now cuz she gets bored at his house and my son spends sunday with his dad but he doesnt spend the night cuz his dad is weird and so i stopped arguing with him about that.

Well I only would get up at 2:30 cause I would go and pick up a lady to go with me in Burbank which is an hour out of my way. I hear you one the kids thing though. I have two of my own but I always went when they were with their dad. In the begining I couldn't sleep because I was so excited so that would be hard on me or when I would go clubbin the night before I wouldn't be able to sleep at all. But thats my own fault.