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| this is how emails look like, coming in from prison |
What do I mean? They said that Joe Giudice will not have access to the internet. That is not true.
He will have access to emails through the system called Corrlinks on a daily basis, although limited to on and off hours from 6 AM till 11:30 PM. See ABC news story here....
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/details-joe-giudices-life-prison/story?id=38031740
Basically the government monitors all of your email activity. The party that you email to must accept your email. An I phone or smart phone can see your emails anytime of the day. There is an app that you can download. Emails are not free. When I was there each minute costs five cents and you buy trulinks to buy time. You pay from your trust account. You can buy 20 trulinks for a dollar or 100 trulinks for 5 dollars. I say that emails are important as you need to be in touch with the outside world as much as possible. I emailed my wife and friends on a daily basis. Trust me, you look forward to having messages, even a simple hello can make your day.
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| FCI Fort Dix from the air |
It also does not say if he is in the camp or the low. When you first enter prison at Fort Dix, they call it the walk of shame, since they close off the road and lock the fenced passageway on both sides of the street so the person can walk all by himself and be gawked at like a gauntlet by inmates on both sides of the fence. It is very stressful because here you are walking in with street clothes and you are surrounded on two sides by perhaps hundreds of guys in khakis. It is a strange feeling indeed. Based on the information that he may be deportable to Italy, it means that if he has a public safety factor, then they will keep him in the low institution. They kept me 13 months in FCI Fort Dix till I proved to them that I was not an "alien" but a US Citizen. I had to go R & D and speak to the officers who deal with ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). You have to have patience since you are not only dealing with a bureaucracy, but you are in prison with limited rights. I had an outside organization called Aleph Institute make calls on my behalf to speed up the process. It took actually five months to get me transferred to a camp. When I first got there I was trying to transfer back to Canada to finish up my time there and save time. In Canada you only do 66 percent. When I got rejected by the Justice Department in Washington, DC, I then started the paperwork process to get me transferred to a camp and I ended up in Otisville which is probably the top 5 prisons in the country and definitely the best place for an Orthodox Jew. Why? Because of the food. And that is another ABC News got wrong. The food in prison sucks. Half the meals are saw dust. They follow some menu out of Washington DC written by some bureaucrat who probably never went to a restaurant in his/her life. They just potch together some spices on low grade food and serve it. However, in Otisville, the inmates ate well over there because a Chinese guy named Sun was the chef and he was a chef on the outside and when he was in the kitchen, and that was a few times a week, everyone came for the meal. The BOP gives a lot of bean meals so they can save money and those meals are good for a dog. When he left, the food went back to pot (not pot but a figurative expression).
Also, you don't have the dinner meal served at 4 PM. That is absolutely wrong. Why? Because the stand up count is first 4 PM. The time they count seven buildings, it is over by 4:30 PM and sometimes even later if they mess up the count and that does happen and then you have to wait in line in that they space who can come in the kitchen, a building of inmates at a time as you don't want a riot on the food line. Each building houses between 300-400 people. Meals (Supper time) start about 5:00 PM. The time the last building is served, it is about 6 PM. Remember, two kitchens are serving 2300 inmates. It does not take thirty seconds but at least an hour to serve everyone. I sometimes waited on line 20 minutes just to get my microwaved meal. Meals start about 5:00 PM. Each week the buildings get ranked in terms of cleanliness and the more cleanliness, the building goes earlier to the dining room.
I ate meal mart frozen meals that I had to microwave. Some of them were horrible, like the fish, that stank like stale blood. In Italian, you call it descratz, or disgusting. They also served some meals from a caterer in Florida and those were inedible as it was eggs filled with water. So anyone who says the food was great in jail is basically lying to you.
The visits are terrible too. You have to sit in a plastic chair the length of the visit. Bathroom is every two hours. If you have to go in between, then the visit is terminated. You cannot put your arms around your man or woman during the visit. That is called inappropriate. You can only hug when your'e visitor arrives and leaves. And don't even think of kissing during the visit, they will terminate your visit immediately. That is FCI Fort Dix. Remember, I lived it. I did not get this information from a third party. You are getting it from a direct source.
To read more about federal prison, please go here....
http://www.amazon.com/PRISON-expect-Federal-Bureau-Prisons-ebook/dp/B011GTWLOG
