anyone have loved one there

Hi jules
Just wanted to answer that I just left my wife in the hands of the Bryan facility on Jan. 23rd. How long were there for? She has 34 months.
Ken

Hi my name is Regina........... I will be self surrendering to Bryan any day now. I must admit i'm a little nervous. I'm 28 and never been in trouble before now. I have been trying to find out as much as I can about the place. Any info?

i did 2 years at bryan. any specific questions?

Just a couple of questions:

Is there a long wait for the rdap program?

Do you usually get the full day for visitation; are there overcrowding issues?

yes there usually a long waiting list for rdap, but you have to be within 36 months of release to get into it. i dont know you sentance but the shorter it is the more likely you will get in sooner. visits are all day on sat. and sun. i dont remember the exact hours, i am from michigan so i only got 1 visit the whole time i was there but i know they go from early morning to well after the 4oclock count.

Visits at Bryan are from 8am until 5 pm on Sat and Sunday..on federal holidays they are from 8 am until 3 pm.... Your visitors cannot arrive before 8 am. I was in bryan from 2004 until 2005....and I know they have a new Warden so unless she has changed things those are visiting times. I hear she is changing alot around that place.

Hey Scrappydz... roooomeeeee ..lol.
I have a lot of friends there that I keep in touch with on a weekly basis. Visitation is still the same...overcrowding is only an issue at Christmas normally. I had a visit everyday visitation was open and although it got crowded my family never had to leave. It was a voluntary basis since it did not get to extremes.

hello. thank you for your encouraging words to us all. i too will be dropping my partner at most likely bryan on feb. 27. i was wondering how on earth we can drop off our loved one and simply drive away? i live 6 hours from the facility and i cannot fathom just leaving her there. how was it for you and what helped you through the torturous aftermath? i do thank you in advance for your time and thoughtfulness.

I know what you mean....when I got dropped off...I was 16 hrs away from home...yes 16....I have a husband and 5 children. My parents dropped me off because my husband and I did not think it would be a good idea for the kids to go so I said my good byes at home in the morning before we left. It was not easy...but you get through it. You just have to stay strong and stay in touch as much as possible. My family was not able to come every weekend but they came about every 3 months....on Christmas they did have to leave early...so the saying about they try to weed out the ones who get visits more frequently is not true...the way the guard explained it to me is that my family had been there since 8 am so they had to leave....although it was only 2 hrs early...it still was hard to end the visit early knowing i would not see them for another 3 mos. But you will get through it...you just need to write each other and she needs to use the phone as much as possible. My husband wrote to me every day. It helped alot. Good luck and hang in there.
Hey GRplndgrl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ROOOOOOMMMMMAAAAATTTTEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!! Where's me pot o gold??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dawn

my sincere gratitude for your helpful words, scrappydz. how difficult it must have been to leave your family, children. this forum is a blessing for those of us who really are on the outside looking in, but have had our lives turned upside down. it's comforting to know there are others who have survived it and come out much closer to the source. my deepest warm wishes to you and your family.

You will get through this. We're fairly new (5 months into 30 month sentence) and the first few days were the hardest. Then the first few weeks. Now we're into a routine of letters, calls, and visits, and it's ok.