You can create a durable POA to cover just about any situation you need. Many people get a medical power of attorney for their parents as they get older.

You don't need an attorney to create your POA.

http://tinyurl.com/ogg5dsg

But the POA will enable you to take care of your guy's business while he is in prison. With the POA, you can create accounts, cash checks, make deposits, etc. You can make the POA to enable you to carry out any of his financial transactions.

You will need to create your POA, then send it to him in prison. He will have to have it notarized there in prison and sign it. It has to be notarized with his signature.

When he does that, he send it back to you. Now you have a notarized, signed POA that will enable you to take care of his business.

If you have to do some banking for him, take the POA into the bank with you and they will make a copy to have it on file. Every bank or any where you use the POA, they will have to have a copy, so keep the original in a safe place.

If you need any help, message me.

rewdiazepam

Here are a bunch of links that deal specifically with creating a POA for someone incarcerated.

http://tinyurl.com/oe8empb

rewdiazepam

Thank You again. I am trying to piece this all together, I think if it is mostly financial we probably dont need one as we took care of most of that before he left and hes only going to be gone for a couple of years total. I think the biggest part we need is me being able to access his medical records at this moment...and when we get married in April that should solve that. :/ Just like pounding my head against the wall that it is all "secret" and feeling that they are hiding something about his knee being infected. There is no way at this point to take a picture of it, have a second opinion, things like that.

I was in the medical profession before I went to prison.

If they are allowing his knee to stay infected, then that is negligence on their part. There is no valid reason that cellulitis or any other skin infection cannot be cleared up with the right antibiotics and time for them to work.

Prisons have a tendency to be lackadaisical toward inmate's health problems. They do not want to address a chronic health problem either.

But even more than addressing a health problem, they do not like civil lawsuits for medical malpractice or negligence.

I would begin to document everything----when you talk or communicate with someone on the medical staff at the Department of Corrections where he is located. Save all the email correspondence also. It may be helpful in the future. It certainly gives you leverage with your position.

Also you need to go up the chain of command regarding complaints. I would start with the Warden, then the medical staff at the prison, then the medical director at the DOC headquarters and demand something be done.

The squeaky wheel gets the most grease and that is never more true than in a prison situation.

It is just really poor medical practice to allow a knee to stay infected that way.

rewdiazepam

I am POA for my brother. Don't have him sign one form, have him sign four or five. Most places are willing to keep a copy on file, assuming they made the copy from an original. However, in dealing with some State agencies they demanded the originals and I have not been able to get them back.

The time and effort to sign four is insignificant compared to starting the process all over again. Fortunately for me his Attorney made the recommendation before he went to sentencing. He just held on to it until we knew the verdict.

Having a POA in place will save you countless problems in the future. Even though doing it from prison is going to be difficult, it is worth the pain. Because I'm POA I continue using his debit & credit cards to fund the commissary account or send books. This helps keep his finances and my finances separate. It also allows me to file his income tax, sell his car and just a ton of other daily things. Make the effort. It will be worth it.

With a proper POA I have had zero problems acting on my brothers behalf for financial matters.

George
www.leafministry.org

the biggest problem I am running into is I am not his wife at this point. So all i can do call the inspector general - the prison itself shuts me down as not related. I am in contact with an attorney right now who may be able to help us (its crossing state lines Oregon and Washington) so he is a bit out of his comfort zone and is trying to find us an attorney closer just for ease of it all but, he agreed the entire thing is a mess and isn't being handled well.

The knee out of their mouths is "its not infected and looks fine" but then he gets put on a different bandage change rotation and things like "this will help infection" are being said to him about an infection that doesn't exsist! Its absolutely becoming a joke...he is sending kytes daily and I am doing what I can from out here. He also filed a greivence at the reccomendation of the lawyer we are speaking to. but all of this takes time and is just a bunch of red tape. My whole take on it is - how much can a run of antibiotics actually cost to get him on and not risk it in the first place?

stressed but hanging in there!
Cathie

We had serious issues with medical care. My partner has Lyme and the DOC in NY appears to not care at ALL how profoundly Lyme affects a person. It took MANY calls to our private attorney as well as calls to the counselor to get antibiotics. And even then they prescribed antibiotics that are not diagnosed for Lyme but amoxicillin, which has very limited success in treating Lyme.
I feel for you!!

I am in touch with an attorney at this point about it all but, it takes time to get this ball rolling. I am getting frusterated at the entire system and my fiancee is pushing as much as he feels he can with the staff but the threat of the hole because they felt "threatened" keeps him from losing his shit so to speak.

I hope your partner gets what he needs in there...I am finding there is an attitude of "being bothered" when the inmates need care...its still the medical profession.