Donald Prutting known as the jail for weeks, making an attempt to gather his brother’s ashes. Jacqueline Ciccone was handed a transparent plastic bag of possessions on the hospital simply earlier than her son died, then spent months making an attempt to piece collectively what had occurred to him in jail. After Tammy Reed’s son died, the jail gave her a field that contained what gave the impression to be another person’s garments and sneakers.
When somebody dies behind bars, the officers who run prisons and jails do not at all times return all of their belongings to their family members. Books, drawings, letters, and different memorabilia, for a lot of households, are treasured reminders of the individual they’ve misplaced. In some locations, corrections officers maintain on to property till they end investigating the demise. Different locations preserve the property till a courtroom formally names somebody to handle it or the household submits the best paperwork, a course of that may drag on for weeks, and even months. And if some beloved memento goes lacking, households have little recourse.
The Marshall Venture spoke with 5 households concerning the belongings they did — or didn’t — obtain after their family members died in custody, and requested what these keepsakes meant to them as they mourned.
The Missouri Division of Corrections declined to touch upon the Reed case, however stated that, generally, households have 60 days to say property after a demise.
The West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation declined to touch upon Haines’ property.
An e-mail to the Federal Bureau of Prisons obtained an automatic reply, saying it was not out there to reply due to the federal government shutdown. The Washington D.C. Division of Corrections and the Kentucky Division of Corrections didn’t reply to requests for remark.
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