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Video-Visits Out in New Mexico Prisons
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2003
by Gary Hunter
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2003, page 29
After two years, the draconian practice of video-only visitation was abolished in New Mexico prisons. "I believe we can achieve the same security goals with non-contact visits," said newly installed Corrections Secretary Joe Williams. "Keeping an inmate's family ties are important," he added. Williams went on to describe the video ...
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Location:
New Mexico.
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