Change Policy of S.C. Department of Corrections from taking visits and Phone calls from families of inmates

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Hello my name is Kimberly McBee and my husband (Leonard McBee #96009) has been incarcerated in the South Carolina Department of Corrections for the past 23-years for Arm Robbery. In his time of incarceration he has had a very bad habit of smoking Marijuana, in the past five years he has made numerous changes and has excepted that he has a problem with this. His family and his self has made every effort to get him into a program in the system, by contacting the SCDC and the Governor's Office with nothing but results from them saying it will be checked into or that he does not meet criteria. His punishment for failing a drug test or having marijuana in his possession is his visits, phone calls, canteen, and good time are taken away from him for so many days according to the number of offense it is. As of this date March 2003 it will be another 10 months before I can see my husband and 3 or 4 months before he can call any of his family. I feel that this is unfair to the families when the system is making no effort to help him with his addiction problem. I feel the policy in the SCDC should be changed, taking the visits and phone calls will not change his addiction.

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    • At some point all inmates will come home.... When you stop the most important part of their lives, (Their families) from being able to contact them, you are on the verge of making them animals. If you treat them as animals, then they will act like animals... What is the real reason for this stupid malady of Justice?????? This is horrifying...
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    • If you can't rehabilitate, you should not take visits and phone calls
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    • We need to change the way prisoners are treated. When one who is incarcerated makes a mistake that shows he is a human being. The common bond we have as human beings is our ability to make mistakes. The most important thing we can do as human beings is to forgive. All the great religions teach forgiveness. Mother Teresa said it so profoundly, "Without mistakes, there is no forgiving. Without forgiving, there is no love."
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    • Family support is very important and punishing a family member is not the way to help an inmate to accept and fight a drug problem.
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    • What happened to rehabilitate??
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    • He should have family visits and help from the prison system
  • James L. Vaughan
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    • I think that the system should first find out where he is getting the drugs,be it from the outside or the guards.His visits should not be taken away from him,they are suppose to be rehabilitating them,not making them into more of a harden crimanal.They should have more visitations than they have now,even the ones on death row.
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    • challenge themselves and society by challenging defacto slavery established by the injustice system in the U.S. and everywhere it is? Isn't an important part of that challenging, working towards abolishing their tool of terror which determines most follow their leaders out of fear, if little else. For, we all know the innocent are premeditatedly murdered by the state to that purpose, the death penalty being a tool of the war on freedom?
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    • THIS IS A VERY UNFAIR POLICY.PHONE CALLS AND VISITS ARE ALL THAT KEEP THEM FROM GETTING IN TROUBLE.RECONSIDER THIS
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    • Family contact greatly increases rehabilitation and reduces recidivism . . . our mutual goals. Why not punish bad behavior by eliminating a privilege which will not affect rehabilitation?
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    • I hope the state realizes one day that more punishment is not the answer. It has not worked and it never will. Treatment and programs to promote a better lifestyle are the only way. How many thousands of dollars and/or years will it take to try something else?
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    • Don't punish the families!!!
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