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Florida Jail Offers Video Visits to Profiteer More From Prisoner Families
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2011
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2011, page 37
A video visitation system has been installed at Florida’s Charlotte County Jail. Using money from the Inmate Welfare Fund, which is derived from profits from the canteen and other services to prisoners, the jail installed a system that allows virtual visits over the Internet.The technology is the first of ...
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