Each state has its own policy regarding visitation for death row prisoners. In general, prison officials have wide latitude to craft policies, including visitation policies, that maintain institutional security and inmate discipline. Inmates sentenced to death are housed at the highest security prison in the Department of Correction They may be held in different facilities than inmates with life without parole. Death row inmates are subject to more restrictions than inmates sentenced to life without parole including:

Prisoners who have been in the system for longer than a year typically do not make much income. In fact, they may not even make enough to be required to file taxes. If the inmate does not have an outside prison source of income, they do not likely make enough money from inmate wages.

Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments programs prohibit payments to most inmates. They will suspend your Social Security benefits if you are confined to a jail, prison or other penal institution for more than 30 continuous days due to a criminal conviction. Although you can’t get monthly Social Security benefits while you are confined, we will continue to pay benefits to your dependent spouse or children as long as they remain eligible. If you

This is a serious set of charges with a decent amount of illegal drugs. The sentencing guidelines are harsh. Is he being prosecuted by the sheriff's department or the FBI? We need to know if it is a state charge or a federal charge. Unfortunately, first-time offenders are not afforded much of a break and with mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines in place the sentence could be hefty. Here is our best advice: Most private attorneys are not worth what

There is no real quick way to speed up extradition. You will have to let the process play out. This is done sometimes to sweat the inmate into a plea agreement. Finding a good attorney is not the easiest thing to do or the cheapest. You will have to talk with your daughter and get a feel for her case. No one really "knows a good criminal attorney" unless they have been through a criminal TRIAL and been

You can go straight to the source, the Clerk of the Court where your son was arraigned. Ask the person answering the phone the name of the judge presiding over the case and that you would like a written copy of the charges. You might have to pay a small fee for the information. This is where attorneys go to get their information to handle their cases, they often have to pay a small amount for copying charges. You are

When an offender is released to halfway house, they are still "property" of the state until that period of re-entry is complete. Halfway house is a privilege and probably came with some good time credits which allowed them released several months before the sentence ended. This violation might cause your friend to have to complete the entire sentence "inside". It is unlikely that the offender will get extra time as the "escape" would have to be more egregious. Running where

That sounds very open-ended. Material witness holds are indefinite. He does not have to "know" the defendants in the case, if he saw something, they are keeping him for testimony as to what he saw, where he saw it and when. The troubling aspect of your question is the immigration issue which sounds like he might be deported upon release.

If you are telling us the whole truth and there is no other criminal history (depending on the state this occurred), you should end up getting a PreTrial Intervention/Deferred Prosecution Agreement which will likely lead to a dropping of the charges once you've completed all of the court's requirements. Expect a fine in the neighborhood of $200. We would recommend contacting the Clerk of the Court and find out who the Public Defender would be in your case. Write them

The real question is how did he get released? You can only get redress if you press charges. You cannot expect the legal process to help you if you are not willing to sever the relationship and go after him criminally and civilly. Domestic abuse cases would proceed with vigor if the victims stop protecting their attackers.