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S Case 1 :06-cv-00694-GIVIS Document 152 Filed 07/23/2008 Page 1 of 3
Amir Fatir # 137010
1181 Paddock Rd.
Smyrna, DE 19977
July 21, 2008
The Honorable Gregory M. Sleet _ F I I, E D I I
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My wife, Helen Fatir, has flown to the United States to visit me. It is Department
of Correction policy to permit visitors three hour special visits when they have traveled
from beyond a 150 mile radius. Deputy Warden David Pierce confirmed that that policy
remained in effect when I spoke with him two summers ago.
I am told that a prisoner whose family visited from Germany received a four-hour
special visit. Other prisoners whose families traveled Hom Latin America report that
they have gotten three hour special visits.
Although my wife has come all the way from England, this prison refuses to
allow us to have anything but the standard 90 minute visit. They may call our visit a
"special visit," but it is nothing but the same visit anyone would get if they walked up to
the prison from Smyrna Landing Road.
I think that the institution is retaliating against me and my wife because this court
required them to investigate the possible options for me to telephone her in England. I
can think of no other reason for them to deny my wife and me the visiting privileges and
rights that are due to us according to Department policy.
I know you are extremely busy and that this issue is small when measured against
the monumental decisions you must make. However, this is huge to my wife and me and,
owing to the prison’s refusal to allow us to talk by phone, this is the only opportunity we
have for any type of personal communication.
It costs her a few thousand dollars to make these visits and we can only manage to
arrange such every couple of years.
Past experience has taught me that the prison will only give me the run around
and will delay resolving the issue until long after my wife returns to England on August
10th. Therefore, I have asked my wife to call you to ask you to intervene and question

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The Honorable Gregory M. Sleet
July 2l, 2008
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whether she and I are being denied the three—hour special visits due to retaliatory
measures taken because of this case.
I am certain that a call from you will immediately correct this matter and inspire
the prison officials to strictly abide by policy.
Just last night I learned that my father, Sterling Hobbs, just suffered a massive
stroke. My family is, understandably, distraught. Part of what I must do is help my
family process the type of care my father will receive, the therapy he will get (he got out
of intensive care today) and how to encourage my father to work with the speech
therapist he’ll need. My father is a very eloquent, brilliant man who was the second
Black disk jockey in Philadelphia (WHAT radio) and purchased a small newspaper so
that I could have a way to hone my writing skills when I expressed a desire to be a writer
in the late ‘60s when I was 15 or I6. Not being able to talk must be torturous to him.
So I have a lot to discuss with my wife. Your inquiry into this matter is greatly
appreciated.
Sincerely,
Am; Fatir

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