View Full Version : Help Wanted - Staton Visitation & Other Info


Lysbeth
03-14-2008, 10:56 AM
Hello Staton families & loved ones!

We could use your help in getting some updated info on visitation and other information on this facility.

As you have probably noticed, at this time we literally have nothing but contact info - the prison's address, phone number, and warden's name - in our sticky for this facility.

What we would LIKE to have for this facility someday soon is something along the lines of this sticky for St. Clair:

http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=182547

... especially specifically:

- Visitation Hours (or a general idea of how their schedule runs)

- Visitation Rules (especially if there are some major differences from what you see there at St. Clair)

- Whether or not they have a segregation unit ("the hole")

- Rules for inbound and outbound mail (limits on pages of letter, envelopes, pics, etc., and how mail to the inmate should be addressed)

- What can be sent in or out through the mail (especially books, paper, envelopes, pens, etc.)

- Can they have stamps sent in, and how many and how often

- Whether there's any difference in the procedure for sending money orders in

- And any other info you think would be helpful along all these same lines.

Pretty much most of the rest, like general stats about the prison, we have access to, but we could really use your help in getting some information together for this facility much like the one in the link above to St. Clair.

So please let us know if things are pretty much the same at your facility, or if there's differences and what they are. Feel free to just add to this post as needed if you can help!

Thank you!

rkered
03-26-2008, 02:06 PM
Visitation hours are 7 AM until 10:30 AM or 11AM until 2:30 PM based on last names. Specific bi-monthly vistation dates are posted a month or so in advance. Numbers are given out 1/2 hour beforehand.(see current post for family night.)
How it is monitored depends on which officer is on duty. To be safe, wear no jewelery but a wedding band (no watches) No reveling/light colored/shorts. Do wear a slip with a dress. They will make women pull the bottom of their bras out, one guard made us lift them up. You will have to take shoes off. They have walk through and hand held metal detectors.
The sign says no more than $30.00 in quarters are allowed to purchase food.
Hand holding and an entrance and exit kiss are ok.
Mail again, it depends on who is monitoring. Stamps are ok. Magazines (no porn) ok, stamps ok, I have sent small newpaper clippings, printed matter, I had a church bulletin returned, but others were accepted. Religious books can be sent through the chaplin. I have sent 7-8 photographs at a time, money orders can be mailed with AIS number, the sound bite was ripped out of a musical card recently

rkered
09-24-2008, 06:20 PM
The new thing added is no open toe shoes. I wore leather kitten heeled sandals last visit and was told not to do it again. My son's friend was told the same thing this month