{"id":6112,"date":"2017-06-28T14:38:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=6112"},"modified":"2017-12-13T09:59:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T14:59:14","slug":"vice_video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/28\/vice_video\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice News Tonight examines the exploitative video visitation industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RlG9qA3OO4Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nAcross the country jails are replacing in-person visits with video chats that can cost over $1 per minute; and as our <a href=\"\/visitation\/\">national research<\/a> on the 600+ facilities that have implemented video visitation illustrates, the collusion between local jails and telecom companies ignores the needs of incarcerated people and their loved ones in favor of profits.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/story\/jails-are-replacing-visits-with-video-chats-and-families-are-devastated\">new segment<\/a> that aired on HBO last night, Vice News Tonight examined the growth of the exploitive video visitation industry in California; speaking with jail administrators, FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, and the families themselves in order to highlight the human toll of switching from the real thing to an artificial \u2013 and costly \u2013 substitute. Check out the piece above!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice News Tonight examines the growth of the exploitive video visitation industry; highlighting the human toll of switching from the real thing to an artificial \u2013 and costly \u2013 substitute. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[42],"class_list":["post-6112","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\/6112","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6112"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6764,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112\/revisions\/6764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6112"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}