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The facility guide.

Visiting is suspended right now at 1 facility:

How I know: the BOP publishes visiting suspensions in its public facility data, and I check every facility every five minutes. The BOP under-reports — quiet means they haven't said anything, not that nothing is happening. Lockdown alert subscribers hear within minutes of a suspension starting or lifting.

Every facility gets a page: the numbers nobody official will tell you (what a stamp trades for, how hard the photo rules get enforced, whether your loved one sleeps in a cell or an open bay) and a guide to how the place runs. Where I have facility-specific intel you get that, and where I don't yet, you get the honest version of how that security level generally works.

Unknown means unknown. I would rather show you a blank than a guess. Know a facility firsthand? Send what you know. These pages get better every time somebody does.

Need help with this? Just ask.

These pages cover the general rules. Your situation has details they don't. Email me a question. Answers are free, and "you don't need to pay anyone for this" is my most common answer.

josh@federalprisondude.com

I answer in the order received, usually within a couple of days. I have a day job. If your situation genuinely needs more than an email, I take a limited number of consults, so say so and we'll work it out.

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