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Can There Be a Family Visit in Prison?

Author · Av. Ayşenur Konar, Avukat

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In short

A family visit in prison is a meeting between a person in pre-trial detention, or a convicted prisoner, and their relatives, according to the institution's schedule. It does not stand in for a meeting with a lawyer. A spouse, a child, a mother, a father, and relatives the institution accepts can enter this record. An identity document and a visitor record are required. The visit day is not in this text. The day is read from the institution's announcement.

The schedule changes with the state of the sentence and with the institution's notice. On an official holiday the arrangement may be different. That change is not tied to a day here. Which day to go is not stated while the document is still outstanding.

The relationship record builds the list

The list holds who will come to the visit, and it sits under visitors' list. A relative who is not on the list may remain at the gate on the visit day. Relationship is shown with a civil-registry document, or with a paper the institution accepts. Saying aloud "this is my spouse" does not of itself open the record. If there is a refusal, the reason is asked for, and a refusal is not assumed if the reason was not written.

A new marriage, or an engagement, does not mean the list was updated the same day. The update is made with the document the institution asks for. The petition does not treat an undocumented name as written onto the list. A decision is not reached while the original of the list is still outstanding.

Open and closed visits

An open visit and a closed visit are not the same table. The distinction sits under open and closed visits. Which form is open for that person is read from the institution's writing. The form also does not carry into this text which day of the week the visit will be made. The visit day is not written.

The glass in a closed visit does not erase the rule on prohibited items that applies to an open visit. The two forms may be two sets of minutes. The petition does not choose the form without the institution's writing. The document also shows the person's status. A person in pre-trial detention and a convicted prisoner are not treated as being on the same schedule.

Identity and prohibited items

At the gate, identity is compared with the name on the list. Clothing and prohibited items sit under visit prohibitions. A prohibited item does not of itself close the visit for an indefinite time. What it was is written in the minutes. An item that was not written is not added to the petition.

A relative who comes with a child also keeps the child's document ready. If the document is missing, that arrival is not treated as a visit that took place. The gap does not mean that one can never come again. The application is directed at completing the missing page, and it does not invent a day.

The telephone does not take the place of a visit

Speaking by telephone sits under right to telephone calls. The telephone does not stand in for a face-to-face or closed visit. The fact that a call was made does not mean that that week's visit was used. The two records are kept apart. A meeting with a lawyer is not a family visit either, and it sits under meeting with a lawyer.

Defence counsel is not written on the visitors' list as a spouse. A power of attorney is not a copy of a document of relationship. The petition does not join the two doors. The visit day is not written in this distinction either.

The room where the visit took place stands in the institution's writing as open or closed. If there is no writing, the form is not chosen by guesswork. If the identity document does not match the name on the list, that arrival is not treated as a visit that took place. The mismatch looks at which name was written in the minutes. The decision does not carry the day on the schedule into this text, and the visit day is not invented.

If an item a relative brought was held at the gate, the minutes write the name of the item. An item that was not written is not treated as prohibited. Being held does not mean that one can never come again. The application describes the missing identity document and the minutes about the item separately. The telephone record is not put in place of those minutes.

The schedule stands on the institution's board or in its writing. If there is no writing, the day of the week is not chosen from this text. The visit day is not invented. The identity document and the list should look at the same name. If they do not, the petition takes the minutes at the gate as the basis, and a decision is not reached while those two documents are still outstanding.

Where the visit day is read from

A family visit in prison is the relatives' contact on the institution's schedule, and it is read apart from a meeting with a lawyer. The office being in Çankaya does not choose the institution's visit arrangement. That is read from the document. The visit day is not written. In the petition, the telephone record is not put in place of the visit.

Conclusion

A family visit depends on the institution's schedule and on the visitor record. The visit day is not in this text. A meeting with a lawyer, and the telephone, are separate doors. The frame sits on the criminal law page. The basis is the Code of Criminal Procedure, Law No. 5271.

Legislation

Frequently asked questions

Which day of the week is the visit?

The institution's schedule changes. There is no fixed day in this text. The day is read from the institution's announcement, and it is not invented.

Can a child visit as well?

Relationship, and the persons the institution accepts, are read from the list. A separate document may be asked for a child. Entry is not assumed when the document is missing.

Does a telephone call stand in for a visit?

It does not. The telephone is a separate record. A visit is the face-to-face or closed contact at the institution, and it is not treated as closed by telephone.

Related reading

This article sits under one practice area. The neighbouring guides carry the detail that does not belong in this text.

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Av. Ayşenur Konar

Lawyer on the Ankara Bar Association roll, founder of Konar Hukuk. This text is general information; a specific file is reviewed separately. Author profile · Editorial policy

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