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Screening Out Family Time: The For-Profit Video Visitation Industry in Prisons and Jails
Loaded on March 5, 2015
by Bernadette Rabuy
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2015, page 1
Filed under:
Computers,
Telephone Access,
Visiting,
Extended Family Visiting.
Location:
United States of America.
Screening Out Family Time: The For-Profit Video Visitation Industry in Prisons and Jails
by Bernadette Rabuy and Peter Wagner
Every Thursday, Lisa* logs on to her computer and spends $10 to chat for half an hour via video with her sister who is incarcerated in another state. Before the Federal ...
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