Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Video visitation is the hot new trend in the corrections industry. Companies like ...

A Securus video chat terminal. The company will no longer require jails to remove in-person visits to use its software. Coos County, NH Securus, a billion-dollar tech company that works with hundreds ...

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, ...

At the Dallas County jail, a local company’s attempt last year to end in-person visitations and replace them all with video chats was quickly foiled by local activists and politicians. But in Denton, ...

Securus Technologies is changing its tune about in-person jail visitation. The communications firm, which provides video services for a number of jails across the country — Denton County Jail included ...

The Dallas County Jail may soon allow inmates to video chat with their friends and family on the outside. But the new perk may come with a serious drawback — the loss of in-person visitation. The ...

ConnectUs is the most robust and feature-rich inmate platform in the market, allowing inmates access to an unlimited set of applications as approved by each correctional facility. This new platform ...

Face-to-face visitation has a new meaning for inmates at Maricopa County jails now that in-person visits have been swapped for Skype-like video chats. On Thursday, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office ...

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – The Grand Prairie Police Department is now the first municipal lock up facility in Texas to offer inmates virtual visitation. The facility launched Securus ...