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To: Bilow who wrote (131712)	5/6/2004 1:30:01 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

In the US, prisons don't have lawyers, per se, but prisoners can write informally to courts and various legal organizations, asking for help. Back when I was taking court appointed cases, I was assigned cases based on nothing more than a handwritten complaint on a sheet of notebook paper. The prisoners' right to face to face contact visits with counsel are pretty well established in Virginia, not that I really liked being locked up in a room with a felon, or hanging out in the hall among felons waiting for a room. Scared me quite a bit, gave me nightmares of being trapped if there was a fire or a flood. The worst one was a Marielito being extradited for murder. I felt like a mouse being eyed by a rattlesnake. It must be horrible to be there all the time, surrounded by scumbags, at their mercy and the mercy of the jailors.