Thursday, 4 July 2019

Shocking Benefits Of Video Visitation For Inmates That You Never Heard

By Jason Moore


When people are incarcerated, they are entitled to remain in contact with their family and friends, that is why there are visitations. There are two types of visitations; there are online visitations and traditional visitation. The traditional type is where the family takes time to go to prisons to visit their loved ones. While the other, the people incarcerated communicate with their loved ones online. A lot of countries are still hesitant about implementing the video visitation for inmates, but it has a lot of advantages that should be considered. The article will highlight the key benefits of this type of visitation as opposed to the traditional type.

The cost of organizing visits can be very high. Its protocol that every person that accesses the prisoners is inspected and the prisoners have to be inspected too. Also, the time when the convict and the outsider are in contact, there have to be people monitoring them. Therefore, you will find that prisons will hire a lot of guards or have all the guards working during these days. This implies that the state will have to pay overtime and also pay for the new people brought in. But when it is done by video, the monitoring does not require a lot of people, so the cost is cut down.

There are a lot of crimes that are coordinated by inmates while they are still in prison. These crimes are coordinated through the individual that visit these prisoners. When the state uses videos, they can monitor the communication between convicts and the individuals who are visiting them, and they can use the information that they collect to control crime.

Prisoners access contraband from outside through the visitors that come to the prisons. But if there is limited contact between the prisoners and the people who come to visit them, then there will be a control of the contraband. This will reduce the high rate of crimes within the prisons.

Parents need to remain in contact with their kids. But parents are hesitant to bring their children to prisons because of the environment. But when they use videos, the parents that are incarcerated can communicate with their children without the fear of exposing them to a bad environment.

The cost of organizing traditional visitations are costly so the government limits the number of visits that they organize. If the cost is low the there will be more visits organized. The video visitation allows the state to plan for more visits.

The safety of both the convicts and the visitors is at jeopardy when these visits are organized. But when the new system is adopted, both the inmates and their families are safe because there is no physical contact. They can communicate without them seeing each other or coming close to each other.

This technique is very important. But it should not replace regular contact between the inmate and their families. There is so much to be gained from the traditional system, and this video system should be used to complement the traditional system.




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