Sentence examples for video visitation from inspiring English sources

Ultimately, the substitution of video visitation for in-person visits raises a legal question that applies to correctional facilities everywhere: is it a human right to receive in-person visitation?

Attorneys may visit with clients remotely by video visitation on their computers or smartphones, the jail's website says.

The prison does not have a video visitation system but her children can visit for two hours on Sundays.

For instance, this past July, the District of Columbia eliminated the possibility of regular, old-fashioned face-to-face visits with prisoners and switched to video visitation only.

Tucked inside California's $125 billion state budget proposal is a provision of great interest to the state's 130,000 prisoners and their families: a measure to stop jails from ending in-person visits for their inmates in favor of video 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.

MC: There are many local facilities that no longer allow for in-person visits — they're using these video visitations to be a substitute for that, and they're charging for it.

UPDATE June 27, 2017, 5 27 p.m: Governor Brown approved the state's 2017 budget along with a measure that stops jails from continuing to replace in-person visitation with video calling and gives inmate families their first hour of video visitations each week for free.

Securus Technologies (the firm which is protesting the FCC rule) has made a lot of money from providing a different service – video-visitation for prisoners' families.

And many jails have harmful policies like limited visiting hours or replacing in-person visitation with video, which can make incarcerated people feel more cut-off from family and society than necessary.

The visitations happen through video screens, often poorly lighted, and it's not easy for them to communicate ― Damus speaks Haitian Creole and French, while they speak English ― but they've gotten to know each other.