JNUVA
01-07-2005, 09:38 AM
My fiancee, a CG officer, has been in the Nofolk Brig for the past month and may or may not be moved to the Charleston Brig soon. I hope not because visitation has been quite easy so far. The brig's website http://www.nsa-norva.navy.mil/navalbrignorfolk/ was very helpful. it even has a place to get directions, though the building is fairly easy to find and right off the highway.
Visiting hours (for prisioners and those awaiting trial) are every Saturday and Sunday and all National holidays. They will not let you enter the building until 12:15pm even though visiting hours starts at 12:30. You need to have an id out when you sign in with the guard. You leave your car keys with them and check any purses or cell phones into a locker (I suggest leaving them locked in your trunk). You pass through a metal detector and they direct you to a small conference room until the guards have summoned your loved one. There's a large room where you can meet and prisioners can have more than one guest at a time. If it's nice you can also go outside and sit at tables. Because my fiance is currently the only officer there (and they don't really know what to do with him) we've been meeting in a small interview room and even the bullpen in the building where everyone has their cell block. (That was interesting to be locked in there with him!). You can hug and kiss when you first get there and right before you leave, but the guards are pretty serious about no other touching. You have to leave promptly at 3pm. All prisioners are forced to a strip search (a quick one) after visitors leave.
It's been fairly easy for me to visit since Norfolk is just a few hour drive away, but there's talk about him being moved to Charleston because he's an officer. If so I'll be learning a whole new set of rules. Does anyone have any info on the Charleston brig?
Visiting hours (for prisioners and those awaiting trial) are every Saturday and Sunday and all National holidays. They will not let you enter the building until 12:15pm even though visiting hours starts at 12:30. You need to have an id out when you sign in with the guard. You leave your car keys with them and check any purses or cell phones into a locker (I suggest leaving them locked in your trunk). You pass through a metal detector and they direct you to a small conference room until the guards have summoned your loved one. There's a large room where you can meet and prisioners can have more than one guest at a time. If it's nice you can also go outside and sit at tables. Because my fiance is currently the only officer there (and they don't really know what to do with him) we've been meeting in a small interview room and even the bullpen in the building where everyone has their cell block. (That was interesting to be locked in there with him!). You can hug and kiss when you first get there and right before you leave, but the guards are pretty serious about no other touching. You have to leave promptly at 3pm. All prisioners are forced to a strip search (a quick one) after visitors leave.
It's been fairly easy for me to visit since Norfolk is just a few hour drive away, but there's talk about him being moved to Charleston because he's an officer. If so I'll be learning a whole new set of rules. Does anyone have any info on the Charleston brig?