There are 2 prisons in this town, one of which is more of a detention prison for the newly arrested or those awaiting trial. And the second is a minimum security facility. Our visit to the detention unit was quite interesting. Allow me to share some of that story with you. We had been to this facility 2 years ago but for some unknown reason we were not given permission to return until now. Getting permission to enter one of these facilities is no easy task. Often times, it seems to me, it comes down to something as simple as contacting the administration at a moment when they are in the right mood. The prison administrators are frequently canceling our dates and changing the times so that we have to be quite patient and flexible. Contrary to feeling welcome in these prisons we are often made to feel as if we are a burden and an inconvenience. Sometimes I get the impression that we are only allowed into these facilities because they want to at least give the appearance to the greater society that they treating the inmates with some kind of civility.