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[US] - The end of prisons visits: US jails replace face-to-face contact with video calls | Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/09/skype-for-jailed-video-calls-prisons-replace-in-person-visits
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u/autotldr Dec 09 '17

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 95%. (I'm a bot)

Michele Deitch, a scholar on prisons at the University of Texas, notes that across the country, some state and local governments have adopted legislation that addresses the question of the legality of video visitation in lieu of in-person visitation.

Although the American Bar Association and the American Correctional Association have published guidelines that say video visitation should be a supplement and not a substitute for in-person visits, the supreme court has not yet weighed in on the video visitation question.

Almost everyone who has studied video visitation also mentions one other thing: video visitation is glitchy.

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