Friday, December 25, 2015

Visit Check

Brief has now been defined as five seconds. Because of issues in the visiting room, brief had to be defined. Prior to defining it, prisoners were not given any guidance regarding how long they could embrace or kiss a loved one. I am not sure five seconds should be a hard and fast rule, because the same terminology is used to define a pat-down. Contact on the inmate’s private parts has previously been determined to be necessary, and the term “brief and incidental” is frequently used to describe the method and occasion in which private parts will be contacted. I am not sure staff or inmates would like it to last five seconds.

After an inmate is informed that they have a visit, they may do multiple things to prepare for it, including things that cause a delay for the visitor waiting on them. They may take a shower and shave, take a dump, go to chow, finish a game of cards, or have a burrito party. It amazes me that they do not get jazzed or in a hurry to see their family and friends, or other loved ones.

Baglips (Inmate Everett Thibbetts) was paged to the control station for a visit pass. I watched as he quickly picked up the phone to place a call. When he was finished, I asked him why he needed to make a call when loved ones were waiting on him in the visiting room. “I called my ex-wife to make sure it wasn’t her visiting.”

“Why don’t you want her to visit, Baglips?”

“Man, I been had that ass. Well, I don’t really care if she does or not, I just don’t want her here at the same time as my current wife, or my ex-girlfriend.”
“Huh?”

“I’m trying to get back with all of them. I just want to love everybody.”
“Why would they want you…I mean, you’re uglier than shit, and you’re in jail for the next 10 fucking years.”
“I can also lick my eyebrows.”

A lady snuck a cell phone to her son through the visiting room. The phone made it into the institution and was shared by multiple inmates before it was found and confiscated. Use of the cell phone ran up a bill of about $1,700. The woman to whom the phone was registered expected the state to pay the bill because she claimed it was our property since we did not catch it when it was introduced into the institution.

A reading from the letter of Saint Paul to the Romans:

8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

“He was so tight, you couldn’t pull a needle from his ass with a tractor, maybe not even with a tugboat.”

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