The Long, Lonely Road

We have been waiting to visit Andy for three weeks, and to see if he was staying in the Eloy facility.  We got a letter from him last week so he's still there.  Whenever an inmate is transferred to a new facility there is a waiting period of two weeks before they can have visitors.  It's been over two weeks.  We drove up to Eloy expecting to see him today.  The first thing we heard when we walked in the door was the prison being in shut-down mode, but not the section Andy is in.  We showed our ID, then the clerk says to me, "you're not cleared to visit."  Well, we checked that before coming and was told I did have clearance. Oh, well, at least one of us was going to visit with him.  The clerk told his dad to take off his glasses, watch, shoes, belt, his keys, and give me the change he had in his pockets.  We had been there about 45 minutes by this time.  His dad goes through the metal detector, sits in a chair waiting to be escorted to the visitor's center.  Fifteen minutes passes and the clerk receives a phone call saying Andy was still on intake status and couldn't have visitors.  Grrrrrr!  

We must choose well what  we do because the consequences of our actions is a long, lonely road indeed.