Visiting Beau, Part II

(I know I already posted just now, but figured I was in the mood to write, so I would get Part II in here.)

So.  Sunday morning I got up plenty of early to get my oatmeal and coffee and Starbucks, and then make the hour and a half drive to the prison so I would get there by 0830.  Which I did.  I sat there in the parking lot thinking that I would have to wait until 0900 to go in, but about 0840 this girl pulled up in the parking lot, got out of her car and went into the building.  When she didn't come out, I decided I would go in too, and to my surprise, there were quite a few people in there already, waiting on the other side of the first security point.   I did the paperwork (you have to do it everytime you go) and put my stuff in a locker and then went through the scanner.

Once in there, we were all sitting around, waiting for a turn to be drug tested.  Oh what fun.  So there was this woman and her daughter and the daughter's baby who was maybe a month old, if that much, and the woman came up positive on the test.  They did it again and she came up negative, so they let her go back to wating with us.  But the daughter came up positive twice, and they made her leave.  The mom was saying how she knew her daughter didn't do drugs, and that she herself had been clean 18 years and had even done 6 years in prison herself.  And that now they would probably be watching her closely in there with her son.  Gee, ya think?

I had my turn, and the guy swabs my hands, arms, front of my pant legs, and the tops of my shoes, and of course I am negative.  I had used my government ID and he asked me where I worked and when I told him he said he had been a Marine too, as an MP. 

We finally get to go in about 0940,  and one by one the guys come out, and I was telling Beau about it.  He told me that actually drugs are a pretty big thing in there,  that people bring them in to the prisoners all the time and that the prisoners turn around and sell them for big money.  Wow.  Now to give the drugs to the inmate can't be done just by handing it to him.  What they do is go to the vending machine area and they buy chips or soda, open it up there and slip the drugs in it and then come back to the inmate and give them whatever it is they bought.  The inmate then swallows it and well, it comes out the other end later.   Yuck.

Well about 1:00, I had to use the ladies room and when I came out, there were all these cops and guards in the main room, surrounding guess who.....the woman and her son.  Apparently she DID have the drugs with her and slipped them to him, but got caught.  You would have thought after coming up positive she would have thought "Gee, maybe I better not do this" but I guess not.  However, Beau says that more than likely she will walk away from there with nothing happening to her and the charges will go to the son since he is already an inmate.  And that he would immediately be taken to a room with nothing in it except a bucket.  Wow.  The things one learns without even trying.

The rest of the visit went without anymore excitement, and it was really hard to leave him there again, especially since I know I won't get to see him for a few months probably.  But when I do go back, I'm hoping I get to bring his little sisters and Sean Michael with me, because I know he would love to see them and they, him.  (Plus it might make them all think twice before ever breaking any laws. lol)

I drove home that day, and really kept my eyes open for any deer.  My GPS wanted to take me the way I came, through those back roads but no way was I gonna do that.  Part of the way through I called Janie and we talked quite a while and she could hear the smart alecky things the GPS was saying, and she could have sworn it was listening to our conversation.  (It really wasn't Janie. lol)   I managed to get home safely about 0130,  without splattering any deer on the road.

It was a long drive but worth it, and I do look forward to going back to see him.  I just wish I didn't have to leave him there.