"Requests Processed" quantifies the activities involved in providing law library service to prisoners.   "On-site Meetings with Inmates" represents the number of inmate reference interviews conducted in-person and by interactive television.   "Individuals Assisted" indicates the total number of people to whom we provide information whether in-person, by telephone, or through the mail.

Note: “MN Inmates Under Contract” includes Minnesota inmates housed in other states.   “Other” includes inmates in facilities not specifically listed above, including county jails.   LLSP provides some assistance or referrals to any individual incarcerated in Minnesota as time and policy permit.   In 2000 requests were processed from twenty-six county jails.   Non-Minnesota prisoners housed in other states are routinely referred to law libraries near their place of incarceration.   At the beginning of year 2000, Red Wing became a juvenile facility for males.   LLSP received one request in 2000, the same as the previous year, from Red Wing.

Note: "Individuals Assisted" is the total number of persons to whom LLSP provided information in each facility.   Due to the movement of inmates between facilities, an individual may have been counted more than once in the facility statistics.   If an inmate is transferred from one facility to another and requests information through LLSP from both institutions, then that same inmate will be counted twice—once for each facility.   However, in the "Total Assisted" row, transferees are counted once.   For this reason, the numbers in the facility statistics section of the above table may not add up to the totals indicated in the "Total Assisted" row.

Note: The numbers for MCF-Willow River/Moose Lake include visits conducted via interactive television.   In addition, 220 inmates at MCF-Shakopee received an introduction to the law library conducted by the LLSP Librarian during their orientation process in 2000.