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The End of Prison Visitation
Loaded on July 6, 2016
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2016, page 38
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Rehabilitation/Recidivism,
Release and Reentry,
Visiting,
Video Visitation,
Family,
Fathers in Prison,
Mothers in Prison,
Children of Prisoners.
Location:
United States of America.
by Jack Smith IV, Mic
A new system called “video visitation” is replacing in-person jail visits with glitchy, expensive Skype-like video calls. It’s inhumane, dystopian and actually increases in-prison violence – but god, it makes money.
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