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, ...

STAUNTON — “Over the past several months, Virginia’s Western State Hospital has quietly accomplished something extraordinary,” said Karl Polzer in his testimony to the Virginia General Assembly. “It ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Video links might become an option for visiting inmates at the Cook County Jail. The Cook County Sheriff's office said it is exploring use of so-called "visitation technology," which ...

Recently, a feel-good video circulated on Twitter. “Orleans Parish Inmates Get Surprise Visit From Family for Good Behavior” showed incarcerated fathers holding their newborns for the first time, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On a chilly Sunday evening in December, a smattering of parents and small children ...

Reston, Virginia – Global TelLink (GTL), a leading provider of integrated correctional technology solutions, announces that it has provided video visitation and scheduling management technology to the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As the Denver Sheriff Department prepares to introduce a new way for inmates to communicate with their family and friends, the city’s police watchdog is ...

Don’t bother touching the glass. Visiting hours depend as much on pixels as passion at today’s houses of correction. Nearly two-thirds of all county jails in Tennessee ban face-to-face visits with ...

Over the last decade, video chat technology has changed the ways we connect with the people in our lives. And more recently, videoconferencing has also had an impact on a very specific type of ...

Imagine the prospect of speaking to a loved one solely via a television screen for weeks, months or years rather than in person and you start to see the issue with the expansion of “video visitation” ...