Friday, May 8, 2009

Official link to Inmate Guide in PDF from Sheriff's site

Dear NOEMIS: Are you official? This is the message that the mysterious Noemis sent me:

This guide is available from the following link: http://www.ingham.org/SH/pdf/inmateguide.pdf

I checked that PDF version of the Guide out, and it looks legit.  I'm glad the Sheriff's Office no longer considers the Inmate Guide a classsified document.  It looks like Ingham County Jail Tales has had a positive impact!

For the record, here is a screen shot of the Sheriff's home page, which serves as the starting point for information about ICJ.  This is what the page looked like in 2007:




Click for a full-size image.  Now, here's the Sheriff's home page as of this week:









Ingham County Jail apparently publishes it own inmate guide

The Ingham County Jail publishes an "Inmate Guide" which they are supposed to give to every new inmate.

They didn't give me one.  When I found out the Guide exists, I asked for one, and got one.

When my attorney visited, he asked for a copy of the Guide.  The guard refused to give him one, saying the Guide is only for inmates.

When I got out of jail, I couldn't find the Guide online, so I scanned it in, and put it online for inmates, their families, their friends, and the public to see: http://inghamjail.blogspot.com/2009/02/official-ingham-county-jail-inmate.html

Today I received a comment from someone under the screen name of  Noemis, with a link to a PDF version of the Guide.

I will gladly link to this version of the Guide if Noemis will identify himself or herself to me, so I can check to be sure this PDF is the real deal.  For instance, the real Guide has signatures of the Sheriff and the Chief Judge.  This copy is unsigned.

Noemis, if you're for real, tell me who you are, who you work for, and convince me that this is the actual, official guide.  And can you assure me that this URL will work forever?