Mariposa Fire Mountain Community Fire Information
Related Articles
Technology like Facetime and Skype has made talking face-to-face over long distances as easy as opening an app. Now even jails are offering video calls to connect inmates and their families. But some civil liberties groups say the new technology shouldn’t replace in-person visits. Before this year, if you wanted to visit an inmate in the Tulare County Jail, you would go to the facility, sit on opposite sides of a glass partition, and speak through a phone. Now, thanks to a new technology called video visitation, inmates can connect with their families anywhere in the country, over the internet. People can pay for remote access to the system over their personal computer and smartphone, or get free access at two county-owned facilities. Captain Tim Fosnaugh with the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office says the remote video stations are filled with technology that would be familiar to many people. “[It’s] kind of like screens that are in cars where kids can watch movies. And they have a
https://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/kvpr/files/styles/big_story/public/tulare_county_sheriff_s_vistitation_room_0.jpg
Wanna Comment?