Children of Prisoners
MUM : We're at the door where we have to take our coats, shoes, belts, watches off and also I have
to take Sarahs coat and shoes off. They put it all into a box, which goes through an x-ray
machine. I then put my finger on the fingerprinting machine, show my ID, and then we have to
be searched which Sarah quite often doesn't like. She gets a bit grumpy and doesn't want them
touching her and things. After all that, we put our shoes and clothes back on and sit and wait
for our VO to be called. And then when they call our VO, we go through these silver doors,
then through some gates, then it's a tiny walk over to the prison, and then we've got the
sniffer dog.
POLICE DOG HANDLER: Keep perfectly still for us please. Thank you.
SARAH : I don't want to do it. I want to see daddy.
MUM : Then we have to wait again. An officer will come through and call our names and that's when we
eventually get into the visiting area where we wait for dad. One day I sat and waited for 40
minutes.