You got a Job!

Congradulations!
Sent out emails to various help organizations and got some positive replies.
 My son went to this place that hires ex felons on Friday and he started the job on Monday. From 8-4 Mon thru Fri, its min wage but thats okay. He has a JOB!
In a month he has turned himself in on outstanding bench warrant, spent the night in jail until it was lifted the next morning, he has a new court date for failure to appear on that old legal matter and now has a job . It can happen. Just have to be on it constantly and really pursue.
Now I am trying to find a room for rent for him so he can commute easily to and from work.

Ongoing but maybe over soon............another court hearing

I must say the Philly court system is whacked out. First my son turned himself in on a 2006 warrant. At first he had some trouble getting the police to hold him. So they finally cuff him and put him in a holding cell for the night. They take him to bench warrant court 12:30 pm the following day, the bench warrant is dropped but they take him up to Curran Fromhold Prison on the Failure to appear charge, he is a holding cell with 30 some other dudes getting processed. I get a call a few hours later from him in the Social services office at 5:15 telling me he was going to be discharged later in the evening. First they tell me to call back at 8 pm, they told me he was going to be discharged 4-6 hours from that time, that he wasn't processed yet. So from then on it was guess work, will he arrive in Center City 1:am, 2 am or later and how and when do I get there and where the hell is going to be if he doesn't have a dime or a cell phone and gets no more phone calls. So when I was on the phone at 5:15 pm I quickly said., meet me at the Greyhound terminal and stay there until you see me.....then I wondered if he heard that or even knew how to get there.
So he arrives at 12:45 am .He was escorted all the way up to the prison from court, was in a holding cell for 6 hours, saw 3 fights between cops and dudes, had 2 baloney sandwiches for lunch and the same for dinner and then he is released. Why in the hell did they go through all of that just to release him ? Makes zero sense to me.

Bench warrant

Well, my son has been out of prison for about 10 days now, he is calm and seems to suffer no ill effects from prison life .He watches TV, fools around on the computer and sleeps and eats well. I would never have known he was in prison for 3 and half yrs because he seems totally okay .

 This morning we headed into Philly so he could turn himself in on a 2006 bench warrant for FTA on a small possession of marijuana charge . In order to proceed with as normal as a life possible he had to get this done so I cried as I say goodbye when the handcuffs went on and he could spend anywhere from 3 to 30 Days in a Philly county jail and then be given a court date to answer to the Failure to Appear charge. Bench warrant is now gone, once he gets out he can live normally while awaiting his court date. I wish this was all over. I am so sick of courts, judges and the whole mess.

9:30 AM You are 8 hours away !

I am just sitting here, nervous, excited and restless to leave to go meet my son at the bus depot. I leave at 1:00 pm, have to take 4 different buses to get into Center City Philly. I am so happy this is over. I can't wait to see my son.

You are Free !

I signed up for VINE that is really meant to notify victims so they can keep tabs where the person who they had problems with . VINE has been very helpful in locating my son as soon as he was transferred somewhere else, I didn't have to wait until I got a letter from him.

Just got this message, one last message .

The inmate for whom you registered, JARED xxxxxxxx with offender number xxxxxxx 
is no longer in the custody of the Florida Department of Corrections as of 
10/2/2014.

You are free Jared on your way to the bus depot. 

5 Hours to go !

Well,Jared this is the day .

You will probably be leaving the prison by 12:30 for the hours drive
to the bus terminal.

By 2:00 pm you will be getting on a bus for a 27 hour ride home.

Tomorrow around 6 pm I will see you, finally after 4 years.
I am so excited, I just can't believe it .It's over, well almost.

I have missed you so much.

Today

If everything goes as planned today is your last day in prison.
I am a nervous wreck. The classification officer is supposed to call me today to give me details. I just want to know you are in the clear to come back to PA.