
Dear Warden: Restore Shayna's Visits, focus your time and energy on those who are an actual risk!


In Arizona, where a '"tough on crime" mentality is still very much alive in the heart of the policyholders and resulting state laws, a families ability to visit a loved one who is incarcerated is not a right, but is instead considered a privilege. Therefore, the decision to approve, deny, suspend, and restrict visitation lies solely in the hands of the Wardens and jail staff. And while the policies of the jail and prison facilities are drafted to portray the goal of protection for the inmates, staff, and other visiting public, these policies are not laws and need only serve as a guideline for officials to follow and the fate for families to remain connected to one another or to rely solely on writing letters, possibly for years, remains ultimately on the mercy of these officer's discretion.



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