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 ...

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 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, a for-profit corrections company that sells video visitation software, is convincing jails and prisons to remove in-person visits. Securus Richard Gladden, a Texas defense attorney, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...