First let me say that I have obtained LOTS of great info here.....but I am really trying to figure this CCC stuff out...Hope someone has some answers...

1. At what point will the Prison tell me where I will go for CCC?
2. At what point do I find out who will be my PO for the supervised release?
3. If you have a job waiting for you when you get out of prison, but there is no CCC facility in your city, does that mean you have to find a job in the city where they send you?
4. Does your family get to come and pick you up from prison and drive you to the CCC?
5. If I am only going to serve 6 months does that mean that the prison would release me to CCC 18 days early (last 10% of my sentence)?
6. What exactly do they do to you when you arrive at prison? How long does it take, and do they put you in a holding cell while you are waiting to be processed?
7. Will the prison send someone to my home before my release and who would that be? How do they get in touch with your family member to make arrangements to come to your home?
8. Do I need to get a notarized letter from my employer stating that they are going to employ me as soon as I am released?
9. Can you shop at Bryan the day you are processed in?

I know this seems like a lot questions, but it would really ease my mind knowing some of the nitty gritty details.....
Thanks

Jewela,

I know you have a lot of questions right now, however, there are some things that you will not find out until the time comes for you to know.

I know what I am going to tell you next is going to be very hard for you, for I was much the same way before my sentencing.

I don't know how religious you are, but I am going to use a phrase that my Grandmother always said and I did not understand until I went to prison.

"Let it go, put it in God's Hands"

Right now, just like me when the Judge sentenced me - you have no control on this part of your life - you are going to go through the system - period - no choice.

However, I promise you life is going to be ok.

Where you do still have choice - is how you face this.

We have all told you that you are not going to be hurt, that there are going to be other women who will take you under their wing and teach you the ropes - most just want to do their time and go home - just like you.

We have given you all the info we can, now, it is just a matter of you are going to have to learn the information as you go along, for it is information that we cannot possibly know at this time. It is what you will learn as your time progresses and is affected by how you do your time.

For example your question two, you will not know who your PO is till close to the end of your time, and I only know that because of discussions I had with Chrisa and reading, it is the same way on state, which is where I did my time.

My advice to you right now, is this: Take the next few days before you report, enjoy your family, enjoy your friends and try as much as you can to put this to the back of your mind. There is only a couple of things I would suggest you do as far as your business affairs before you report.

1. Review everything you have been told to do here on PTO, to insure they are done.

2. If you want letters (which I assure you - you will) leave your name, no. and location in the thread here on PTO for addresses of those already incarcerated or with someone trusted to give out to those you want to write you.

But, most of all, take time to be with your friends and family right now, that includes us here at PTO, and as much as you can enjoy life.

Know that once you report life is going to be ok, it will change, however, you are going to have friends and there are going to be things and people that will bring some joy in a bad situation, you have to focus on those things and people and remember, we are here for you.

I am going to send you a pm in a moment.

Patti

Friscolady is exactly right on this..the biggest regret we had, as i told you is that we wasted away those last days worrying about things that we had no control over...enjoy your time at home. Some of these questions, I can answer and will in a pm to you.

First let me say that I have obtained LOTS of great info here.....but I am really trying to figure this CCC stuff out...Hope someone has some answers...

1. At what point will the Prison tell me where I will go for CCC?
2. At what point do I find out who will be my PO for the supervised release?
3. If you have a job waiting for you when you get out of prison, but there is no CCC facility in your city, does that mean you have to find a job in the city where they send you?
4. Does your family get to come and pick you up from prison and drive you to the CCC?
5. If I am only going to serve 6 months does that mean that the prison would release me to CCC 18 days early (last 10% of my sentence)?
6. What exactly do they do to you when you arrive at prison? How long does it take, and do they put you in a holding cell while you are waiting to be processed?
7. Will the prison send someone to my home before my release and who would that be? How do they get in touch with your family member to make arrangements to come to your home?
8. Do I need to get a notarized letter from my employer stating that they are going to employ me as soon as I am released?
9. Can you shop at Bryan the day you are processed in?

I know this seems like a lot questions, but it would really ease my mind knowing some of the nitty gritty details.....
Thanks
Question #1: Not until near the end, you will have to fill out paperwork for this and since your sentence is so short, talk to your C.O. at your first team meeting on when and how. CC' s are just like prison facilities as there is bed-space waiting here too. Obviously if you have a job waiting for you, this is a plus for you and you should bring it up to your C.O.

Question #4: Yes, your family can pick you up to take you to your CC, you get an alotted amount of time and only (1) person can pick you up and you must go directly to the CC, no stops allowed other than to eat and gas up. Duluth is a 3 hour drive to Minneapolils where hubby's CC was, we got 4 hours to get there or be considered an escapee. Obviously if you have car problems, weather, that is taken into consideration, but you need to contact them and prove it.


Question #3: They will try to put you in a CC as close to home as possible, Hubby's was 45 miles away from his workplace, he drove and had an alotted amount of time to get to work and back.


Question #2: You will not know who your P.O. is until probably the last week of incarceration or even not until you are in the halfway house...hubby was in halfway house when he found out.

Question #5: Unknown on that one..maybe Greyghost can answer it.

Question #6: Possibly, yes

Question #7: Someone both from the CC and your P.O. will come to your house, depends on them when, yes they will contact someone in your family ahead of time. In our case I talked to the CC case manager over the phone before his release, but nobody came to our house until he was in the halfway house and he went with them through it not me. I have seen other posts where they have gone through with a family member, so it could be either way, depends on the case manager and the p.o.

Question #8: The only people who really care if you are working is the CC and they will need your place of employment and a contact person and they will verify this themselves. A good idea would be to send off a letter to your CC as soon as you find out where it is giving them this information so they can verify it before you get there..gets you home faster if you get as much done ahead of time as possible....make their job easy!

Question #9: No you will not be allowed to shop the day you get there, there are designated shopping days during the week of which you will be allotted one them per week. For instance if yours is a Thursday and you self surrender on a Friday, you will not shop until the next Thursday...other inmates will help you out tho.

Thank you - you have not only helped me - but someone else may come along one day and need the answers to these questions also. I really appreciate everyone's efforts in trying to calm my fears. I do not agree that sometimes you just have to find out things for yourself. If I ever have any information that would help ease someone elses mind over nagging questions you can bet I will help in anyway I can.

I think what Friscolady meant (or I took it this way) is that there are some things that are down the road that nobody can answer for sure, it is different in different places, my answers are based only on our experiences and yours may be different. We had an unusually great case manager at the halfway house who plowed through our paperwork and got hubby home in a record amount of time. What she is saying is not to worry about those things which have so many variables or no real answer, while you have so little time left at home..enjoy life right now the best you can.

Have a good holiday weekend!!

I am trying to enjoy the few days I have left at home but it is so hard when you don't know when you will ever come home again. I realize that this is probably a very common feeling.
It is also a very human instinct to want to know what will become of you. I guess I am having a hard time adjusting. I also smoke and realizing that I might have to go a whole week without a cigerette on top of the stressful process of being "admitted" makes it even worse. Which the non-smokers will jump up and say oh but that's a good thing....No that is not a good thing.....being processed into prison is not the time to have to give up smoking!!!! I would also kind of like to know about how long this admitting process takes - Should I wait and eat lunch then surrender? Or is it something that they do fairly quickly?

They will give you an exact time to surrender...I dropped hubby off at 2 pm on May 9 and he was processed in by 7 pm the same night...

And I agree with you on the smoking thing...I had quit for 10 weeks before hubby dropped the bombshell on me on what he had done...Back up to a pack a day now!!
He keeps asking me when i am going to try to quit again.. i tell him "when this is really all overwith"

I would eat lunch away from there anyway, we did. Hubby did miss supper that night.

AHHHH married to a non-smoker - just like me - only mine is a "so called reformed smoker" Quit cold turkey 25 years ago - He has such discipline!!!!:hee:

I actually quit half-heartedly...oh well gave me an excuse to start again...lol

I've never been in prison but have been dealing with the BOP for a long while. One of the main things to remember is that even though the BOP has a rule or a policy or a process for something, they don't always follow it - and they can pretty much do whatever they want. So - don't sweat the small stuff. Save your energy, be flexible, stay in touch with your people, and don't get in other people's faces. Make positive choices that will help you progress through the system - because that's the only way out the other side. You can do this! Thousands have. Zelda