{"id":2481,"date":"2014-09-09T08:31:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T12:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=2481"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T20:46:10","slug":"dallas-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/09\/dallas-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Texas to consider banning free in-person visits, requiring expensive video visits instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Later this morning, Dallas County Texas will vote on a new telephone contract with Securus that will also ban free in-person visits and require families to pay for video visitation instead.  <\/p>\n<p>There have been two good stories this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Dallas Morning-News<\/i>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/2014\/09\/08\/dallas-county-considers-using-video-chats-for-jail-visitation\/\">Dallas County considers using video chats for jail visitation<\/a> (This article is a good introduction except that it subtly legitimizes the bizarre argument that the contract might not ban in-person visits.)<\/li>\n<li><i>Dallas Observer<\/i>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasobserver.com\/news\/dallas-county-set-to-stop-most-face-to-face-jail-visits-charge-families-for-video-7103810\">Dallas County Set to Stop Most Face-to-Face Jail Visits, Charge Families for Video<\/a>  (This article squarely presents the evidence to address the fact that this contract will ban in-person visits.) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/phones\/SumOfUs-2014-Sep-09.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/images\/SumOfUs-2014-Sep-09-thumb.png\" alt=\"SumOfUs petition thumbnail\" width=\"250\" height=\"324\" class=\"reportcover right\"  \/><br \/>\n<\/a> With the vote scheduled for this morning, our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/sumofus.org\">SumOfUs<\/a> collected <a href=\"\/phones\/SumOfUs-2014-Sep-09.pdf\">2,053 petitions<\/a> from their Texas members in under 12 hours yesterday urging the county to reject a &#8220;contract that would substitute visiting hours for expensive corporate-sponsored video calls.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>To our friends in Texas, good luck today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later this morning, Dallas County Texas will vote on a new telephone contract with Securus that will also ban free in-person visits and require families to pay for video visitation instead. There have been two good stories this week: Dallas Morning-News: Dallas County considers using video chats for jail visitation (This article is a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":["post-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phones","category-shorts","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13516,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions\/13516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}