No they don't have to. They don't have to do many things you will get upset about. He will do ok though. Mostly my guy says that boredom is the worst thing. They will watch TV, read books, and some play cards. Letters now are vital to keep him feeling part of your life.

Mine says going to actual prison is much better for the most part. Then they have more to do. Jobs, their own tv, some have gyms to go to, some places they can go out for walks. And actual prisons have contact visits.

This is just the beginning if he is going to be in awhile. You will have to learn to cope with it, and he will too. He will find a couple guys he will be close to, and they help each other get through it.

In the prison my son is in only certain pods get to go outside. His does not so he is taking a class in horticulture because that gets him outside at least for a short while 5 days a week. The class is 9 mo long. After that its back to the usual.
He is doing 25yrs. He cannot repeat the class.

I just thought they were required to allow them so much time for fresh air and exercise. It seems cruka and unusual to deny someone sunlight and fresh AIF for 25 years. Just saying. So sorry Misty u

I just thought they were required to allow them so much time for fresh air and exercise. It seems cruel and unusual to deny someone sunlight and fresh air for 25 years. Just saying. So sorry Misty u

the horticulture class is a great idea Misty. I hope something else will become available to get your son outside more often in the future.

Star dream, when my daughter was held in a county transfer center for a couple of months she was not allowed outside. It was very hard for me to hear about it. She slept a lot in the beginning. I was the one not sleeping. In time the shock and fear of what is happening in your world will be a little easier to handle. I had no clue people in jails in America really aren't allowed outdoors until my daughter was sentenced. It is unethical in my book. I hope your fianc is moved to a better place soon.

In the county jails here, there are no windows and they can't go outside. And they can be in the county jail for up to one year and a day. So they don't see sunlight at all for that long. Seems there are no humane rules that apply to them once locked up. Somehow they do cope.

Thankfully in the state prisons they usually have an " exercise yard", which in his last one was a small square area with a walking path, and a gazebo to sit in.

Where he is now, being a transitional housing place, there are no fences, no barbed wire, no guards outside. They get to go out in the beautiful area, that is acres and acres of land with walking paths, woods, and a tiny river running through that they can soon fish at. It is a place to get ready for coming home.

When locked in the county jail, he too just slept a lot when allowed to. He said those are the worst places, but you get used to it and find ways to keep busy.

We worry about them and get angry, but they do adapt.

In county my daughter could not go outside. My neighbor is a guard in that county and she said that the people come in looking pretty good but leave white and pasty looking. You would think they wouldnt get away with that. My son in law in prison gets to go outside 2 days a week at 6 in the morning! wheres the sunshine in that.

County jails are much worse than prison's, is what my fiance and son have said. They don't seem to have to live by any rules we would think are normal and human. All they are required to do is give them "adequate medical care, and feed them. And even that is really not what we think is normal or fair, or right.

Prison's and jails pretty much are run by rules that are not anything like the real world. I read a bunch of stuff when I was in Criminal Justice classes how much they can get away with. How they can side step even some laws made in the Constitution.