On Saturday, April 24, 2004, Lancaster's Dawn Martin changed her clothes from sweating to a dress in preparation for visiting her husband at soleda prison.She drives more than 200 miles (one way) to sleep and wears Miata clothes on weekends.On Saturday, April 24, 2004, families stayed up all night to visit prisoners at the California Correctional Training Facility in soleda.The new statewide prison regulations limit access to the weekend, forcing families to line up early in the morning in order to have the opportunity to visit relatives in the prison.On Saturday, April 24, 2004, Lacey Atkins/Chronicles of Lancaster, lesdaine Martin, changed her clothes from sweat to a dress to go to soledaShe drives more than 200 miles (one way) to sleep and wears Miata clothes on weekends.On Saturday, April 24, 2004, families stayed up all night to visit prisoners at the California Correctional Training Facility in soleda.The new statewide prison regulations limit access to the weekend, forcing families to line up early in the morning in order to have the opportunity to visit relatives in the prison.Lacey Atkins/Chronicles05-04:00:00 PDT Soledad-Monterey County--They arrived late at night and stopped next to a front road without a name.At dawn on most Saturdays, a small community appeared on the road next to Highway 101 outside the state's prison.Wife, girlfriend and mother, waiting to visit a prisoner, get rid of long driving and bad sleep in a crowded car by chatting, drinking coffee, or apply lipstick and eyeliner with the help of a rearview mirror."If I knew I would stay here for so many nights, I would buy a different car," Dawn Boston pointed out after changing from sportswear and jerseys to flowers --Two of her clothes are printed inside.seat Miata.To save money, California correctional officers reduced prison visits this year from three to four days to two days on Saturday and Sunday.Now, scenes like this are played every weekend at many facilities across the state.Fearing that they would be denied access to crowded visiting rooms, relatives of prisoners arrived overnight in droves and lined up outside the prison to make sure they could get in.In prison, shorter visits can allow as many people as possible to pass.The rooms visited were crowded, chaotic and noisy.Arriving at some prisons later in the morning or earlier in the afternoon may be rejected.Prison officials expect that by reducing visits, they will save more than $11 million in personnel costs in the next financial year.Due to the need for more guards to oversee the process and prevent illegal drug access, the visit day will cost money.Victim Rights says it is enough for prisoners to visit with their families two days a week, after all they may hurt someone else's family."Many of us have not visited with our loved ones at all," said Harriet Salano, president of the California Federation of crime victims .".Salano's daughter was murdered in 1979.But with the State rolling out new parole reforms to help reduce its staggering high recidivism rate, prisoners advocates and some experts say, reducing the chances of prisoners keeping in touch with the outside world is a short-sighted way to cut $5 in funding for the sector.Budget for 3 billion.Most of the prisoners came out, they said, and the policies that prevented internal family contact created more dangerous parole offenders.Oakland psychiatrist Terry Cooper said: "The contact with your loved ones will not allow you to be completely swallowed up by prison culture ." He worked with prisoners and studied the effects of prison visits."The evidence is overwhelming: the less quality visits a prisoner receives, the less chance he will have to turn things around.If the prisoner has no contact with his family, the prisoner will fail as soon as he comes out.This is almost inevitable.The correctional officers did not object to this.Jenny Woodford, who was recently appointed director of corrections, said in an interview last week that she thought visits were important, and at some point, she will try to add more visiting days to the prison schedule.But corrections officials are under pressure to cut spending, and Woodford says cutting visits is inevitable."Now, we just don't have the money," she said .".Others say there are many other options.A state audit this year concluded that prisons awarded expensive health care contracts without proper cost control, such as the government and the government.Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to convince state prison guards to give up at least part of their salary increase of 11% in July."Instead of cutting the wages of prison guards, or spending less on maintenance or other things, higher --"Ups in Sacramento has decided that the families of prisoners will bear the brunt of budget cuts," complained Charles Capone, a California prison focus lawyer .".Until this year, many prisons allow four days a week, usually Thursday to Sunday.For those who wish to see the imprisoned loved ones, this change adds to a variety of headaches.The crowd on Saturday forced most tourists to wait more than three hours at Folsom State Prison before entering the visit room from the front door.In the Solano state prison in Vacaville, a car almost a mile long condenses one or two cars.The road to prison.Lt.Mary Nead said the prison was in two days as many tourists as it was in four days through the prison.The prison houses about 6,000 prisoners and can accommodate only about 600 visitors per day.At Soledad, the way to the street-turned-Last month, an accident occurred in the parking lot, involving a guard on his way to work, and a tourist parked from a parking space on the side of the road.Outside soleda prison, women like PUA Reinhart transformed their vehicles into small rooms in the hotel.Reinhart drives three hours a week from Central Valley city Toure, then sleeps on an old army bed behind her minivan, lining up to see her husband, who is 15Annual sentence for drug crimes.A train passed by at three in the morning.m.Every day, a noso-welcome wake-up call.There are now enough car campers, a farmer with land near the prison has agreed to come over on the weekend morning and pick up a garbage bag full of garbage made by all the guests on the side of the road.Reinhart and Boston, who make 286-Every other weekend, drive a mile from Lancaster, Los Angeles County, usually two of the first visitors to visit at 9 in the morning.m.They hold hands with their husband, play cards, or eat high-priced food from the vending machine.In order for as many people as possible to come in, early people were often forced to leave before noon."Sometimes (the corrections department) feels like we all want to leave ---"Don't come," said Boston, who works for a construction company in Southern California.Several other tourists interviewed by Boston and the Chronicle on a recent Saturday morning are part of a love story and can only be described as unorthodox.Boston began communicating with her husband Andre via emailMail, married him in the visiting room.Her husband received a 50.An annual sentence for crimes that Dawn Boston does not want to discuss;He could be released on parole as early as 2010."I really believe my purpose is to help him out so that we can have a good life together," she said .".California has a surprisingly large prison population, second only to China and the United States.S.Federal government.California used to have a large number of prisoners in prison: about 70% returned to prison within three years.As the cost of holding 33,000 prisoners in the state exceeds $162,000 per year, correctional officers have begun major reforms to reduce the recidivism rate.There will be more mental health treatment, more pre-Release plans with prisoners and develop drug treatment plans for parole offenders who fall off the wagon.But psychiatrist Cooper says prison officials can influence reoffenders by promoting more family contact with prisoners.He cited studies conducted throughout the 20 th century that showed that prisoners who visited multiple times were much less likely to commit a crime again once they were out.The danger of reducing access time, Cooper said, is that families will feel frustrated and stop coming, leaving prisoners with no incentive to perform in prison once they go out.Woodford said budget restrictions mean it is unlikely to resume more visit days in the short term.Despite mounting complaints from the families of prisoners, the long lines of state prisons will continue."They have sinned and they should do the time," Reinhart said in her van .".But these are our husbands, our fathers, our brothers.We just wanted to see them.