At the place I'm housed.....(Conditions)

I have single family housing...____
One cellie_______
I live with 34 people you don't know and I don't like..._____
(other)______________________________.


In the institution I'm in,.....(Employment)

I have to hold a job (work assignment)___________.
Can work or seek work if I want to ________________.
Would work but people outnumber jobs here________.
Spend my time (not working) by ___________________.

Does this instition give 'State Pay' to only those who work?
Is there a 'subsistence wage' for everyone there?
What is the range of state pay jobs in your facility?
(please name the jobs/functions if you know them)

In the facility I'm in,......(niceties)
I could make canteen once a week,_________.
Twice a month,__________________.
Once a month,__________________.
Average I spend on canteen at one time is $____________.

Does the canteen sell clothing? Shoes/ pants/coats?
Does the institution allow 'Vendor Boxes or Home Boxes or both? --Any information you know about them (weight, times in a year each can be had,...)
What appliances are allowed in personal property?
tv_____
Walkman______
radio_______
hairdryer______
battery charger______

CONTACT questions....
Visits are _________times a week (in person) or (under glass).
They last _______minutes and have _______people max.

Phones are up for use
_________times a day/week/month
Calls go through _________company as 'collect'
" go through with prepaid calling cards at this end.

Mail comes _________ (daily?__)
Into a PO box thingy I've got a key to.___________
Between the bars/under the door/Beantrap_________

What is the average of letters you send and get each week?


What educational programs are available where you are?
______GED
______Computer training
______OJT Trades/mechanical/auto
______College courses/equivalent allowed?

What is in the main Library where you are?
Books/newspapers/tapes/?

Does your facility have a Law Library?

Does your facility have a Medical unit?

Does your facility have Psychiatric services onsite?

Which progams (if any) are available to someone housed as a Lifer where you are.?

___AA
___NA
___CAA (Cross addictions Anonymous)
___One on One counselling
___Group Therapy
___Anger Management (or RET)
___Domestic violence treatment program
___Sex Offender treatment program
___Drug Addiction Rehab (residential/aftercare)

What religious denominations are represented in the population of lifers where you are?

What particular Religious services are given time in a chapel or meeting room? Which ones aren't given the time for services?

How many of you have already 'retired' a member of staff there? Outlasted the warden, or the deputy warden, or a Captain or LT of the guard? This question is just put here to get some sense of perspective... You'll notice a greater turnover in staff, over time, than inmates in the Liferzone.
It's another reason for lifers to take an interest in the decisions being made about their lives. They'll be living with them a helluvalot longer than those who made the menial decisions.

Feel free to print this out, or convey the questions to the Lifers in your life. If they chose to reply, please PM, please PM, please PM the replies to me. I will be constructing a thread with the answers to each separately, so folks who come in later can play along....

If your person would like to write more about a topic than the question asks for, or if they have anything else on their mind on the subject(s) feel free to write to your heart's content.

If it's not used in the questionnaire/answer thread, it may be given a thread of its own (under whatever name you've chosen).

This is the first (of many) questionnaire to be posted here. Please only add to this thread any suggestions and questions you might like to see on another questionnaire.. (I can move them out as they are used in future questionnaires...

Thanks to you all, in and out, for playing along...

Hey Life .. glad to see you are back.. i am printing this out.. and hopefully will have it mailed out . i had visit today.. he was a little confused on "what this was for" i tried to explain.. he dose not know much about "online" stuff he knows i talk with others.. about having a loved one in prison.. etc

Thanks and glad your back up and running
DOnna

Thanks.. I know this questionnaire was a while in coming.. But I think it will (if folks want to answer it) give a bit of dimension to the types of places and general conditions which they have to work with and live with. There are also a few variable ones in there... Like how often can you go to canteen in a week/month (by rule) and how often then do you actually 'make' canteen. Might give those of us out here some sense of real life as well as the 'possibilities'..

The unit I was in could go weekly, on proscribed days at given hours. You went to one line the day before to get a # and then throughout the canteen day you'd hear assorted ranges of numbers being called to canteen. The canteen following the posting of state pay was always a bear. Off weeks were easier (faster) and the week before pay was always a scoot.. mighty few folks had any money left.

Print out and will be sent to Florida tomorrow. Good idea Life :)

Phil

Phil, is Joey doing life? I didn't know that. Glad you're here with us but sorry if he's doing life.

Life, I just sent out this questionnaire a day or two ago, so we should have it back pretty soon. It's four days there and four days back plus whatever time it takes in between to get the letter written.

I've got the answers back. Now what?

Please PM the replies to the questionnaire to me. I will construct threads (on topic) with the replies to follow. If the person who filled them out has written some sort of stand alone narrative as well, I will post it as a thread independently, giving credit to their 'new' name as the author.

PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM.......

Good idea I will send this out to "my" lifers and see if they will play along:)

got this back a couple days ago will PM you the answers tomorrow:)

Just wondering what is this questionaire for?

Star.. this was a very old thread.. that another forum moderator had started right when the lifers forum .. was born:))) soooo it was just something to start up the forum and to get a "feel" for what OUR lifers prison settings (housing) and daily life/activities rules and regs... were.. anything from how many visits.. to how many books ..or religous activities.. I believe the answers have .. been posted a while ago..
Hope this helps you understand.. it was totally voluntary information..


Peace
Donna