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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

In October 2012, Travis County officials promised that bringing video visitation to the local jails wouldn’t affect anything else about jail visits. “We’re not changing anything else from what we’re ...

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 ...

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, ...

Securus Technologies is changing its tune about in-person jail visitation. The communications firm, which provides video services for a number of jails across the country — Denton County Jail included ...

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 ...