A prisoner whose visits are terminated or suspended or who has been disciplined may appeal that process through the normal prisoner appeal process. All visitors should be careful for themselves and their children in walking through the parking lot, as often there is substantial moving traffic. It is wise to check with your local institution prior to your visit. All mail should be addressed to the prisoner with his/her full name, his/her CDCR number, his/her housing, and the address of the prison. Visits with hospitalized prisoners are only considered for prisoners having life threatening or critical injuries or illnesses. However, they will only be able to use VSA to schedule visits when the system is made available at the prison. Visitors found to be in violation of traffic laws may be subject to warnings, termination, or suspension of visits. (A limited number of larger, taller tables are available for disabled prisoners or disabled visitors.) The prisoner must obtain prior written approval to visit during work or school hours by seeking Excused Time Off (ETO) from his/her supervisor. Juvenile Title 15 Minimum Standards Effective 1/1/2019 1 Title 15 Minimum Standards For Juvenile Facilities Title 15 Crime Prevention and Corrections Division 1, Chapter 1, Subchapter 5 Effective January 1, 2019 Staff will typically know whether the delay is a prison-related issue and advise the visitor; if it is not, the visitor should ask staff to call again for the prisoner. The action taken by the prison remains in effect while the appeal is pending. If a visitor has been waiting more than 30 minutes, he/she should ask staff about the delay. Title 15 is the rule book to follow. Visitors are encouraged to reference information below on how to schedule visits, use the video system and expectations for video visits. At some prisons, vending machines may also include fresh fruits and vegetables. You should behave as a reasonable person would behave in a public place (for example, staying fully clothed at all times, not verbally or physically fighting with others, not being defiant to staff.) Staff will write which visiting room the visitor is to go to on the pass. Instead, a new request must be submitted during the following week reservation timeframe. Staff then uses the information on the pass to call the housing unit and advise the prisoner that he/she has a visit and should come to the visiting room. Prisoners can sign-up to use the designated phones in 15-minute time slots. 1882-1904, October 15, 1892, Image 1, brought to you by University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR, and the National Digital Newspaper Program. One key may be an electronic car keys; Identification (as previously specified); A comb or brush; non-metallic, no pointed end or detachable parts; A small unopened pack of tissues or a handkerchief; no bandannas; Ten Photographs, no larger than 8” by 10”; photos may be shown to the prisoner, but must be taken out by the visitor at the end of the visit; photos cannot be Polaroid and may not include any sexual or gang images; photos will be viewed by staff during processing; Documents up to 10 pages, no larger than 8-1/2” by 11” (standard size typing paper); usually such documents will be either papers for the prisoner’s signature (for example, tax forms), information to share with the prisoner (for example, pages showing classes available through a correspondence course), or family papers (for example, a child’s report card, certificate of achievement, or drawing), but they can be anything that can be sent to the prisoner through the mail. Items allowed without prior approval are limited to the following: If you have a need to bring in items relating to a medical condition, you must have documentation from your doctor as to its need. Family visits are restricted to approved visitors who are immediate family members (parents, children, siblings, legal spouses, or registered domestic partners) of the prisoner. Family and friends (called party) cannot call prisoners; prisoners must call to speak to someone outside the prison. Correspondents may not send the following directly to a prisoner: books, magazines, newspapers, or packages; such matters must be sent through approved vendors and the prisoner can advise his/her family and friends about that procedure. 1 TITLE 15 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION T of C DIVISION 3. Some of these centers also provide informational training on issues including medical (e.g., HIV, STDs, and AIDS), children (e.g., how to help a child whose parent has gone to prison), or other concerns. Most prisons also have children books that prisoners can read to their minor visitors as well as religious materials from most major religions (the Bible, the Torah, the Koran). Nevertheless, visiting at a prison can be complicated and confusing, especially when visiting for the first time. Appointments can be made either by e-mail and/or telephone, but only during specified hours. If you call the Identification Unit, you will need to provide the full name and date of birth of the prisoner you wish to locate or his/her CDCR identification number. Visitors must go through metal detection device(s) successfully. Every prison has visiting on Saturdays, Sundays, and four holidays during each calendar year (New Year’s Day, July 4th (Independence Day), Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day). The written consent authorization form to bring in a minor child(ren) must be updated each year. Some institutions schedule visitor processing times for the first two to three hours of visitor processing to reduce crowding in the Visitor Processing Centers. Refer to the Department’s current policies and regulations in Title 15 and the Department Operations Manual if you want to know more. Prisoners may also hold minor children whom they are visiting. All institutions will be following public health protocols while conducting video visitation, including physical distancing and sanitation of each station following a visit. State of California. It is a felony for anyone to attempt to bring into the prison any drugs or weapons. You should contact the institution you plan to visit for more information regarding visitor processing scheduling. Crime Prevention And Corrections. Most prisons have a Visitor Center. If the prisoner you wish to visit has been convicted of a criminal offense involving a minor, you should check with him/her if you plan to bring children (even if the children are the prisoner’s children) to visit. A request to visit on an approved holiday may be submitted seven days prior, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Most prisons provide limited board and card games for prisoners and their visitors to play together. The Identification Unit is available only Monday through Friday (excluding holidays) from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Most prisons have an Inmate Family Council (IFC), a group of visitors who meet regularly with prison administration to try to resolve issues that come up relative to family and friends staying connected to prisoners. The called party can listen to the entire message or they can press the five button on their telephone to accept the charge of the call. How to Send a Package to an Inmate.You can send Inmate Quarterly Packages through authorized private vendors. To make your video visit go as smoothly as possible, CDCR encourages you to familiarize yourself with our new video visiting guidelines and procedures. Throughout the roll-out of the video visitation program, CDCR will be collecting feedback, questions, and concerns on the process from the IFC’s so the department can work to create better solutions and processes for this new program. A photo identification issued by the Mexican Consulate. Attached to this letter are the most recent changes to those regulations, which took effect in January 2019. Adult Institutions, Programs and Parole. You may request a new visiting session during the next open visiting scheduling timeframe. SOURCE: PC Sections 2601, 5054 and 5058; CCR, Title 15, Sections 3173, 3267, 3288, 3289, and 3292. Title 15 Title 15 is a part of the California Code of Regulations entitled Crime Prevention and Corrections. As with all visitation at our institutions, visits may be canceled at any time for health and safety reasons. You may also check out the Webex How-To resource for some helpful tips and a step-by-step guide on how to access the Webex video visit. With such verification as to its medical necessity, the following are allowed: If your religion requires you to wear a certain type of clothing that would otherwise be unacceptable by operating procedures, such as Muslim headdress or Catholic habits, you will be allowed to wear the clothing; however, you may be required to remove it for inspection in a private location with an officer of the same gender present before you are allowed into the visiting room. It is about 275 pages containing 21 Articles including Visiting, Mail, behavior, discipline, food, etc. If you are disapproved, you will receive a letter from the prison setting forth the reason for disapproval; the prisoner will also receive notice of the disapproval but will not be given the reason. Either the prisoner may keep the photo (taking it back with him/her after his/her visit) or the visitor may take the photo. Once approved, you are listed in the computer as being an approved visitor for the prisoner; you do not need to bring any proof of approval with you to the prison. Whenever the prisoner and visitor leave, it is their responsibility to clean up the area in which they were visiting by returning any books or games and putting trash into its proper place. Approval/Disapproval of Prospective Visitors. Prisoners subject to non-contact visits have time-limited visits, usually one to two hours; their visitors must leave at the end of the allotted time. These visits occur in a large visiting room, usually furnished with tables and chairs and usually shared with many other prisoners and visitors. © Copyright 2021 California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation, Link to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation website, Sending Money, Packages and/or Messages to Inmates, Guidelines for Visitors to Division of Juvenile Justice Facilities, Message to Approved Vendors for Inmate Packages, https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/visitors/inmate-visiting-guidelines/, Guidelines for Visiting Juvenile Facilities. At these prisons, visitors without appointments will be processed on a first-come, first-in-line, first served basis; but not until all visitors with appointments have been processed. The prisoner is escorted in handcuffs by staff to the visit. The information in this letter is from CDCR’s family visiting regulations in the California Code of Regulations, Title 15, § 3177 (15 CCR § 3177). Prisoners and visitors are subject to continuous surveillance. For example it takes the Title 15 rule for visiting and decides when it begins and ends or what time and days lawyers can visit clients. will be taken to a private room where they can remove the item and staff of the same gender will use a wand to search. Prescription medications that are life-sustaining or condition stabilizing, such as inhalers or nitroglycerin; medications must be in the original pharmacy container with the patient’s name, the pharmacy name, and the doctor’s name, as well as the medication’s name. CDCR has announced video visiting at 22 conservation camps, also known as fire camps. At other prisons, the prisoner is required to purchase the photo ticket from the canteen. Hats with documentation that they are medically necessary. Visitors may write to the Warden about any issue. Vending machines usually have sodas, water, sandwiches (including burgers), and burritos, popcorn, candy, pastries, and coffee. The pass calls for the prisoner’s name and CDCR number, the relationship of the visitor to the prisoner (spouse, mother, friend, etc. If a called party would like to know their collect call rate, they would need the prisoner to call them first so that a completed call or call attempt would be in the GTL system. The contract term is usually for several years and the contract rates are fixed and do not change for the contract term. Prison visiting rooms have digital cameras available for photographs of prisoners and/or their visitors to be taken. As noted previously, there are Visitor Centers at most of the prisons, and those Centers provide bathrooms, shelter, and activities for children. or a functional title. Connectivity issues will not allow CDCR to offer VSA for fire camp visits. (When visiting room staff calls the housing unit for the prisoner, it becomes the responsibility of housing unit staff to advise the prisoner. A driver’s license (from any state) with photo; A Department of Motor Vehicle identification card (from any state) with photo; An armed forces identification card with photo; A United States Department of Justice Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) identification card; A United States passport with photo or a foreign passport with photo; or. In addition to providing information regarding days and hours for visiting, the 800 Visitors’ Information number and website will also provide information on lockdowns, medical quarantines, or other circumstances affecting visiting, addresses, and directions to the prisons. Until the VSA is implemented at an institution, approved visitors must continue to request a video visit using the email process. 54020.35 Transfer of Visiting Records – The inmate’s visiting file shall be forwarded in accordance with DOM Chapter 7, Article 3—TYPES OF RECORDS and ARTICLE 5—CENTRAL FILE AND TRANSFER OF RECORDS. Contact visits are restricted to five visitors at a time. Per the Department Operations Manual, Section 54020.29.1 – Suspension or Exclusion of Visitors from the Visiting Program, it states, “Visitors violating a policy, regulation, or law are subject to denial, suspension, or revocation of a visit in progress or exclusion from the visiting program in accordance with California Code of Regulations (CCR), Title 15, Subsections 3176 – 3176.3.”. Visiting (Refs & Annos) 15 CCR § 3172.1. Information about attire and other visiting guidelines are available at https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/visitors/inmate-visiting-guidelines/. All prisoners are eligible to receive visits unless they have temporarily lost that privilege due to disciplinary action. The area is usually relatively small (about the size of a typical bedroom) and has toys, games, and books for the children. Usually, terminations will be of those prisoners and visitors who have been visiting the longest, at the time terminations become necessary, in order to make space for waiting visitors. That process usually takes only a few minutes; but if the visitor is leaving at the end of visiting, there will be many prisoners to be searched at the same time and the wait (if the visitor is required to wait) can take much longer, up to 30 minutes. There are restrictions on what you may wear to a prison. If the minor child(ren) is accompanied by someone other than his/her parent or legal guardian, in addition to the certified copy of the minor child(ren)’s birth certificate, the adult must also bring a notarized written consent authorization form (Notarized Written Consent Form) signed by the minor child(ren)’s parent or legal guardian expressly giving permission for the minor child(ren) to visit a prisoner. The visitor may appeal the action by writing to the Warden; the Warden will respond within 15 days. The dates and times are assigned and cannot be changed if you cannot make the appointment. The calls have a 15-minute time limit and the system automatically ends the call at the end of the 15 minutes. Adult Institutions, Programs and Parole, Title 15. All visitors should be very careful in parking outside the gates; and when driving on grounds be courteous and respectful of others as well as obeying all traffic laws. Individuals are free to contact any state prison inmate by mail, and electronic mail is available at some institutions. Most prisons have different addresses for mail being sent to a prisoner and mail being sent to prison staff; be sure to get the address used for sending mail to prison staff, as the completed application should be sent to the attention of “Visiting” at the prison. With such documentation, staff will use a wand to sweep your body instead of the metal detector to ensure security. The only physical contact allowed between prisoners and their adult visitors at other times is holding hands. Additional camps will rollout video visiting in subsequent weeks. 8/12), Release Program Study, which is incorporated by reference; the CDCR Form 1515 (Rev. CDCR offers real-time video visiting at all 35 prisons as a safe way for incarcerated people to see and speak with their loved ones. Prisoners are given information about process when they first enter prison. You obtain the Visitor Questionnaire by having the prisoner you wish to visit send it to you. Crime Prevention and Corrections Division 1, Chapter 1, Subchapter 4 Please visit our Frequently Asked Questions for more information. Both the Department’s website and the Visitor Information line have information as to the visiting hours at the prison you will be visiting. Sometimes the reason for denial is that the prison requires additional information (for example, evidence that the applicant is no longer on probation); in those cases, you should resubmit the questionnaire and provide the additional information. If you have an implant or prosthetic device that includes metal and will set off the metal detector, you must have documentation from a doctor specifying the nature and location of the implant or device. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and representatives of families of the incarcerated are jointly committed to work together to support connections between inmates and their families through improved communication, shared information, issue identification, and problem resolution. He/she is then free to leave prison grounds. Visitors may leave a visit at any time or stay until the end of visiting. Use the Inmate Locator to find an inmate and in what facility they are housed. Prisoners and visitors who have had contact visits may again share a brief kiss and/or hug at the end of the visit. VPASS will no longer be used to schedule a visit. Staff at the Visitor Centers are quite familiar with visiting rules and procedures and can be a good source of information for the family and friends of prisoners. No adults (neither prisoners nor visitors) are allowed in the play area except when supervising their children. Also included in the confirmation will be a link to join a visiting session as well as instructions on how to begin a video visit. Most prisons have a Visitor Center that will lend you used but clean clothing if the clothing you wore is rejected by staff. All billing and blocking issues should be directed to GTL’s Customer Service number at 1-888-415-0377. If you do not agree with the reason given for the disapproval, you may appeal by writing to the Warden at the prison. Children must be supervised at all times while on prison grounds by the adult who has accompanied them to the prison, including whenever the children are in the play area. Misconduct by any party during a visit will result in termination of the video visit, and may include disciplinary action. CDCR values visitation as an essential part of rehabilitation, but at this time the Department must make difficult decisions in order to protect the health and wellness of all who live in, work in, and visit state prisons. The written consent authorization form must include the name of the prisoner the minor child(ren) is allowed to visit, the name of the person who is authorized to bring the minor child(ren) into the prison, and the date(s) of the proposed visit(s). There will be a wait from the time you arrive at a prison to the time you are processed to visit. The called party and prisoner will hear a warning message advising when they have two minutes and one minute left in the call. 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