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IN: Indiana bars extended family from seeing more than 1 prisoner

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Limit on prison visits angers South Bend family Indiana bars extended family from seeing more than 1 prisoner. By ALICIA GALLEGOS Tribune Staff Writer May 23, 2010 SOUTH BEND -- When Sam Dickens' son went to prison earlier this year, the father didn't think he'd have any problem visiting him at Westville Correctional facility. After all, Dickens' nephew is also an inmate in an Indiana prison, and Dickens has been visiting the young man for years. But Dickens said he was shocked to learn he couldn't be on his son's visiting list. Instead, new visiting restrictions at the Indiana Department of Correction meant Dickens had to choose to visit his son or his nephew, not both. "I'm so frustrated. It's just not right," Dickens said during a recent interview at his home...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 25, 2010 (boomark / email).