you can only hire a private lawyer-they would be allowed to talk to the inmate.
the public defenders do not visit in prison and only talk to the inmate in the court house right before the hearing in my experience.
also in ant's jails, suicide gestures are common and they ignore a lot of them. they only responded if the person succeeded in passing out somehow. they have cameras in iso and can watch the person there.
they can put them in iso for the smallest things!! ant was in for a month once for giving his shoes to another inmate in exchange for candy.
