Residents who are classified as public law, currently on supervision, will have restricted privileges and will not be eligible for passes, personal time or home confinement.
Residents who enter Midway as a Direct Home Confinement Placement need to understand it could be up to 14 days or longer before you are placed on home confinement. Certain guidelines have to be met prior to your placement in this status, and the time will vary depending on the situation.
All residents who are approved for home confinement will be placed on electronic monitoring.
Landlines are MANDATORY at approved home sites for weekend passes and/or home confinement. A copy of the latest phone bill is required prior to being approved for passes and/or home confinement.
Resident home phones must meet the following guidelines.
Home phones must be residential landlines that are nontransferable. This means that the home phone service must only be accessible from the home site. Therefore, no magic jacks, line links talk boxes, etc. will be permitted to serve as a landline.
Residents must obtain home phone service with one of the following home phone service providers:
- AT&T
- Comcast
- Bell South
- Frontier
- Charter
- Century Link
- WOW
Call forwarding must be removed from the home phone service. Residents must provide proof that this has been done from the phone company. If it is discovered during the home site inspection or any time thereafter that you do have call forwarding, your privileges to go home will be immediately terminated.
For weekend passes, residents must also
- have a job and work at least 30 hours per week
- be free of any disciplinary infractions including detail Incident Reports
- take an active role in their programming