FAMILIES OVER PROFITS
Private companies and jails are working to replace all prison visits with expensive video chats.
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Screening Out Family Time:
The for-profit video visitation industry in prisons and jails
by Bernadette Rabuy and Peter Wagner
January, 2015
Exhibits
- Exhibit 1 Facilities with Video Visitation
- Exhibit 2 New Mexico Corrections Department Contract with PB&J Family Services
- Exhibit 3 Global Tel*Link Reply to Alabama Order
- Exhibit 4 Chippewa County, Wisconsin Securus Contract
- Exhibit 5 Washington County, Oregon Telmate Contract
- Exhibit 6 Washington County, Idaho Telmate Contract
- Exhibit 7 Dallas County, Texas Approved Securus Contract
- Exhibit 8 Dallas County, Texas Proposed Securus Contract
- Exhibit 9 Securus Dallas County Additional BAFO Responses
- Exhibit 10 Placer County, California ICSolutions Contract
- Exhibit 11 Fee Breakdown
- Exhibit 12 Maricopa County, Arizona Securus Contract and Proposal
- Exhibit 13 Charlotte County, Florida Earnings August 2014
- Exhibit 14 Collier County, Florida Securus Contract
- Exhibit 15 Travis County, Texas Securus Contract
- Exhibit 16 Travis County, Texas Commission and Visitation Data
- Exhibit 17 Travis County, Texas Lawsuit Amended Complaint
- Exhibit 18 Saunders County, Nebraska Securus Contract
- Exhibit 19 Windows Only Companies
- Exhibit 20 Securus Shawnee County, Kansas Financial Proposal
- Exhibit 21 Adams County, Illinois Securus Contract
- Exhibit 22 Tazewell County, Illinois Securus Contract
- Exhibit 23 Adams County, Mississippi HomeWAV Contract and Visitation Policy
- Exhibit 24 Portsmouth County, Virginia HomeWAV Contract and Brochure
- Exhibit 25 Lemhi County, Idaho TurnKey Contract
- Exhibit 26 Jefferson County, Idaho TurnKey Contract
- Exhibit 27 Rutherford County, Tennessee City Tele Coin Company Contract
- Exhibit 28 New Orleans Motion
- Exhibit 29 Counties with Bans on In-person Visits
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