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- The End of Prison Visitation https://mic.com/articles/142779/the-end-of-prison-visitation 147 comments
- The End Of American Prison Visits: Jails End face-To-Face Contact – And Families Suffer https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/09/skype-for-jailed-video-calls-prisons-replace-in-person-visits 105 comments politics
- Tanzanian president John Magufuli ordered prisoners be made to work “day and night”, that conjugal visits be ended and that lazy inmates should be “kicked”...says underemployment of inmates leads to drug use and homosexuality. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/15/tanzania-president-says-prisoners-should-be-kicked-and-made-to-work-day-and-night 3 comments worldnews
- Prison telecoms are replacing in-person jail visits with a glitchy, expensive system called "video visitation" in an attempt to end in-person visitation entirely and rake in cash via monopolistic contracts https://mic.com/articles/142779/the-end-of-prison-visitation#.glb7buo2j 1167 comments technology