This is something that just doesn't make sense unless all video communications are recorded and/or monitored by LE. If a person visiting has to submit to background checks, and only those who pass get to visit - what's to stop a group of undesirables to videochat with inmates? I realize the great difference between in-person visits and remote video, but it's just odd.
I also disagree that this great perk is available to people who are supposed to be in jail as punishment.
What a fabulous, fabulous perk inmates get these days. I don't give a rat's



if they're incarcerated and it's not pleasant; it just seems like they get more and more comforts. "Civil Rights" my eye. They should lose all their civil rights the second they are convicted of taking away another human being's civil rights, human rights, LIVES.
Blech.