Hudson Link

"I like fat"

"Always a great place to get you spirit lifted!"

"Very relaxing and friendly."

"In the processing area, you will see family members shunned away for various attire technicalities. I personally, had to go into a bathroom once and take the stitching out of my shirt with my teeth, because I wasn’t allowed on the visiting floor with that color stitching in my shirt (black thread on the back of a white shirt). During one visit after being turned away from visiting three times, I finally came back totally confident that I was appropriate enough to visit and wouldn’t get refused again and a C.O said to me “You are one determined woman”. It seems as though the correctional officers will see and say anything to get a visitor to have to go home. Male C.O. officers love to flirt with the inmates female visitors. They are often inappropriate in ways in which they grab and hold the woman’s hand to put a stamp on in it while in an area that is just inches away from the visiting room. You would have been pleasantly surprised to see that the vending machines contained $5 salads, fruit and real food (rice and beans with onion and green peppers) along with $1.50 chips, candy and even $4 ice-cream for the visitors and inmates to eat while in the visit room. However, as you look around the visiting room, you will immediately notice how EMPTY it is. Consider the prisons population and the small size of the visit room, on any given day one would visit, there would only be no more than 10 - 12 families having a visit. Thats no more than 10-12 inmates on a visit per day. There are about twelve empty tables each visit. This correction facility has great continuing education programs and art programs for inmates, SingSing is very boastful about their accolades in administering such programs to their inmates. Michael Capra, the superintendents message is to be able to have the inmates identify or re-identify what it means to be a man, and obtain skills that will make them valuable individuals within their communities once they leave the correctional facility. Keep in mind, that this IS a Maximum Security prison, majority of the inmates hold sentences of life and/or beyond. Perhaps Michael Capra wants these men to be valuable citizens of their communities when they are released from the prison at the tinder age of 105. It’s obviously clear he means “communities” as in other correctional facility communities; which is helpful. However, Whether an inmate is going home to his family soon or not, is no reason to isolate him from his loved ones and friends. The amazing programs this Correctional Facility offers it’s inmates are nice and indeed needed; it is also necessary to not make it so difficult for inmates to be able to see their friends and loved ones. Especially if one is looking to shape a well-rounded individual that can be valuable to his community once released."