Under the settlement, the sheriff's department will buy and maintain hundreds of new wheelchairs and provide physical therapy on site for disabled inmates
Prisoner advocates are raising alarm, saying video visitation is impersonal and that its emergence has frequently left jail policies in the hands of profit-driven technology companies
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Panelists will review the training required for officers to manage custody transitions, as well as highlight strategies to improve safety during this process
Claims it doesn't work and alienates poor families
For years, visits have been a frustrating experience at the Harris County jail
Those who bring in a toy will receive increased visitation time
Commissioners Court approved a contract to install video-visitation technology in the jail
An inmate being taken out of a visitation room becomes unruly, leading a corrections officer to strike him.
California is set to implement some of the nation’s toughest protocols for access to state prisons in an attempt to reduce the flow of illegal drugs to inmates
A new study is shedding light on inmate visitation and its effects on rehabilitation
Man became trapped for over a day when he went into the wrong visitor's room
Farad Polk says he spent more than 30 hours trapped in the Cook County Jail, and for the first time, he described the anguish of being locked up.
Was trapped in an unoccupied room where people visit supermaximum-security prisoners
A man spent 31 hours in an empty maximum security visiting area until he broke a sprinkler head alerting firefighters
Says he has been denied access to them because of short-staffing at Golden Grove and that they therefore have been deprived of their right to effective counsel
A new smartphone hookup called HomeWAV allows Wyandotte County jail inmates to call home any time of the day or night
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