{"id":4341,"date":"2016-04-19T15:57:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T19:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=4341"},"modified":"2016-04-19T15:57:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T19:57:01","slug":"in-person-visits-return-to-jails-in-travis-county-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/19\/in-person-visits-return-to-jails-in-travis-county-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"In-person visits return to jails in Travis County, Texas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visits in Travis County, Texas, took on a special significance today. This morning marked the <a href=\"http:\/\/grassrootsleadership.org\/releases\/2016\/04\/face-face-visits-return-travis-county-jail\">end of the county&#8217;s video-only visitation policy<\/a> and the first time since 2013 that people incarcerated in the county&#8217;s jails were able to see their loved ones through a plexiglass window instead of a computer screen.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Travis County phased out its in-person visitation program and adopted a video-only visitation policy. Jail administrators claimed that video was more efficient and conducive to more frequent visitation. Families reported a <a href=\"\/blog\/2016\/04\/18\/travis_video_casestudy\/\">different experience<\/a>, and the current psychological research confirms that video and in-person communication are <a href=\"\/blog\/2016\/04\/11\/eye-contact\/\">far from equal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The reversal in Travis County sets a new precedent. While <a href=\"\/visitation\/report.html\">almost three-fourths of the jails that adopt video visitation also ban in-person visits<\/a>, the Travis County jails are now an example of how the technology can supplement in-person visits and improve communication options for families.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to <a href=\"http:\/\/grassrootsleadership.org\">Grassroots Leadership<\/a>, and to the formerly incarcerated people and their families whose advocacy brought about this change!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since 2013, in-person visits will be allowed at Travis County jails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[32],"class_list":["post-4341","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\/4341","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4341"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}