I don't blame you for wanting to be married and have its benefits...I sure am wanting that too. I don't think they could do that, but I may be wrong. Was he given a list of rules that he must follow? And is there anyway to get proof he had a perception? They can't violate him on something percribed, unless like unsaid it was written in the rules he was given.

I cannot imagine he would get a write up or misconduct for a failed UA if he had a legal doctor's prescription to take the Vicodin. BTW, Vicocin is hydrocodone.

When I had my pharmacy, several times I was asked to sign a statement for a PO in situations like this. The probationer failed a drug test for which he had a legal prescription. Once I even had to testify in court.

Writing him up for a violation for the Vicodin if he can get a doctor or pharmacist to testify that he was legally taking the drug for medical reasons cannot be right.

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If he violated by failing a UA he would have to be notified of the violation and told of it. I hate to say it but what it seems that your facing is more about trusting what he is telling you about the violations etc. If he has/had a prescription for the Vicodin then presenting that to the PO should be more than enough as they are not medical professionals and unless he has a history of drug use and abuse they can't say yay or nay to him taking any drug that has been prescribed to him by a physician. Which sounds like the crux of the question, does he have that prescription? If so, even if they try to take him to revocation court or deny him a review, he should have an administrative remedy with in the DOC he is being supervised under.

My experience with this is that my husband is on meds that in most cases will make a person fail a UA in fact when he had his UA when the company he worked for sold the facility he worked in and he had to go through the hire process again with the new company he would have failed if he hadn't had his prescription. The PO wanted to see the prescription and I think the bottle once, but they won't touch the bottle or handle any of the meds. I know here in WI there has been issues with agents stealing from their offenders their prescription drugs.

You will have to make your own judgements and decisions here, but if you would like peace of mind have you thought about calling the Agent to see what they say? I know it might give you two conflicting stories but you will have all the information then. Or you could ask your husband the doc that prescribed the medication as well. If he wants to be upfront and honest then he shouldn't have any real issue with you asking them about that one thing. Or if the doc is someone you know you might at least be able to confirm that there was ever any medication prescribed. I don't know enough about HIPPA to know what they would be able to tell you about your husband.

I talked with my brother last night and he remembers paying the pharmacy for my husband's prescription, so it is legit; I just didn't know about it. I rarely take medication and my husband does not 'play through the pain' by any stretch of the imagination, so a lot of what he says goes in one ear and out the other.

He says he took the prescription to his PO back then and she said no problem. Now she has no memory of that --- he doesn't believe me when I tell him to get things in writing--- and the supervisor will not believe him. His project for today is to get a copy of the prescription and take it to the PO and supervisor. He was told by the supervisor yesterday that "even if it was true and she cleared the violation, it would still be on his record" so it makes no difference for the review. My response was to just keep going up the chain. I would think that at some point they will have a problem with the absence of paperwork for this so-called violation from THREE MONTHS AGO.

Wisconsin, this is all complicated by the fact that we're nearly 2000 miles apart. I can't read his body language, nor can I go check anything out myself :( Plus, I have no experience in any of this and I don't want my words or actions to cause any problems.

It has to be very tiresome, feel like you care more than your L/O. hang in there. You have found the place to help find answers to help yourself and your L/O .

You are right about going up the chain of command in the DOC, there are bad agents and there are good agents. There are agents that have severe personality conflicts with their offenders and do nothing but constantly fight with them. then there are agents with that same offender that can make progress with the offender helping them reintegrate and become productive again. So I wouldn't necessarily think that he isn't being truthful, for he could have just 'one of those agents'. I would have never believed such a drastic difference between agents if i hadn't seen the changes in a friend of mine when they finally switched agents on him. He went from combative or sullen to productive. He now has his own small business that is starting to take off in a real way. All due to the change in agents and their style of supervision.

I have also found from talking with many folks that female agents are notoriously more 'evil' than male agents. They seem to operate in a very vindictive way, setting people up to fail or trying to hold the leash so tight that the offender can do nothing else but bite them (figuratively). Personally I believe that most women that go into the profession of sex offender supervision have another agenda, probably with what they think are good intentions that play out like Steven King's, Misery. Where the offender feels like a prisoner, even worse than when they were incarcerated, so much so that I have heard some basically challenging the agent to draw up revocation papers cause the time inside would be easier than dealing with the supervising agent.

There is a remedy in most DOCs to complain about the agent or challenge a decision they have made, that is a process an offender can use to appeal decisions. It can progress all the way back to the sentencing court usually, if a remedy can not be found in the admin process. He should be looking up his options in the manual that the DOC he is supervised by uses. Those would be considered Open Records and be requested easily by just mailing the request (registered so there is a delivery confirmation receipt, because records need to be released in a 'timely' manner which is usually within 30 days.) When I request it I'll usually tell them that electronic copies will work to, if it will save them time and money. Then you can get a better idea of what to expect from the whole thing. I read the one for Wisconsin that is specifically for Sex offenders (yeah there are two supervision manuals, one for 'regular' criminals and one for sex offenders, RSOs have to follow them both... each manual is about 400 pages long too. They are not as daunting as they sound... )

My husband has all women PO's and they have given him a lot of trouble because they can. The one he has now he's been fighting with for the last two years. I met her once and felt the same way. He goes into depression mood the week before he has to go in to see her. Your husband could be right and it doesn't take much to be violated. Good Luck!