{"id":2818,"date":"2014-11-10T14:04:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T18:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:33:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T20:33:15","slug":"sheriff-joe-phases-out-in-person-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/10\/sheriff-joe-phases-out-in-person-visits\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff Joe Arpaio phases out in-person visits in Maricopa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video visitation at Maricopa County, AZ jails has seemed fishy from the beginning. At first, Sheriff Joe Arpaio cut back visitation last December, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/news\/joe-arpaio-cuts-back-on-inmate-visitation-just-in-time-for-holidays-6645417\">just in time for the holiday season<\/a>. The sheriff\u2019s spokeswoman told the <i>Phoenix New Times<\/i> that the cut from three 30-minute visits per week to one 30-minute visit per week was necessary in order to \u201cupdate\/improve MCSO\u2019s video visitation program.\u201d What she didn\u2019t mention was that, one week later, the Maricopa County Sheriff\u2019s Office would announce its plan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/news\/joe-arpaio-cuts-back-on-inmate-visitation-just-in-time-for-holidays-6645417\">to get rid of the remaining face-to-face visits<\/a> in Maricopa that still existed in half of Maricopa\u2019s six jails.<\/p>\n<p>As of last Monday, Sheriff Joe has completely phased out in-person visits in all Maricopa jails. Families and friends now have two options: travel to the jail and visit their incarcerated loved one via a video screen or schedule a remote visit (using a personal computer) for a fee. The confusion doesn\u2019t stop there. While Securus, the provider of video visitation services in Maricopa, is currently offering promotional pricing for remote video visits at 25 cents a minute, this price will only last until the end of the year. So by January, those visits are going to cost <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170126133500\/http:\/\/www.maricopa.gov\/procurement\/awarded_contracts\/pdf\/13002-c.pdf\">65 cents a minute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infamous Sheriff Joe Arpaio replaces in-person visits with video visitation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[21],"class_list":["post-2818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phones","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13512,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/13512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}