You can usually call the Warden's office and request a visit or tour. This will be based on what they feel is sufficient.
Have to remember one thing. Their main goal is to keep the public safe and to insure no inmate, in their custody, escapes or is able to communicate outside of what is permissible by the VADOC
Most of the time you will be given the standard questions of for what purpose.
No cameras, cell phones, keys, pagers are allowed as inmates are not suppose to be filmed, nor is the prison, nor are you allowed to transport anything inside that could be given or stolen.
Basically just take your license photo id and your keys which will be locked up.
You will be searched.
Usually most prisons do not care to give you a tour. However, you probably will be given a background check, then searched as is everyone who enters a prison.Including the Wardens and all staff.
Myself. If it was me, i would try to ask several to go, friends relatives etc, etc.
A tour.
May help to relate to those you talk to, that you want to learn, and hopefully learn to relate to others. That this is not where you want to end up.
Most Wardens and Asst. Wardens are more comfortable with this.
Personally i think it should be something schools and many of the juvenile homes do.
To show troubled teens what their futures may be.
It's a real wake up call for many.
You see a real diversified group. And you learn that it's a group of people inside of a group. Many type people living in the same place, yet totally different.
And you have staff who have to adapt to those people and be able to relate to them.
Call the local prisons and ask for a visit. Let them know it's for learning or if you can get a group together to go.
Most of the time. This is something they like to do. It helps some see the reality of what a prison is all about.
And yeah drop by and try out the staff dining. Learn what it's all about.
Don't just look but ask a few questions of those who work there.
You probably won't be able to talk to inmates. Because of the potential, of well, them using it as an excuse to manipulate the situation.
Give it a whirl.
It's a part of our job market. And those who well have not been there need to see and be able to relate it back to others.
Some times you don't see it all in a tour. But you will get a sense of some of what it's all about.
No one expect those who have worked there can describe what it's like to go from nothing, to an all our fury of emotions, then back to calm in a matter of minutes.
And yeah that is for inmates and staff.
Sometimes it is a boiling pot, sometimes it's a simmer pot, but it's always a pot that you don't want to get to hot.
Sometimes it's more mental. Then again sometimes it can be more physical than you think.
Depends on the temperature in the pot and how long it simmers, and who knows how long somethings seem to far out of the norm.
Time can be a slow things sometimes.
But call and request a tour. Like i said a small group is better. But it don't hurt to ask.
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