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Prisoners and Families Connect with Video Visitation, for a Price
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2012, page 42
Since 2006, family members and friends of Virginia prisoners have been able to use modern videoconferencing equipment to enjoy visits with loved ones held in state prisons hundreds of miles away.The Video Visitation Program, operated by two Richmond-based nonprofit groups, Assisting Families of Inmates and the New Jubilee Educational ...
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