What is a video visit, and how do they work?
Who are the companies that facilitate video visits?
What is a video visit, and how do they work?Video visitation, also known as remote visitation, is quickly becoming the preferred method for visiting an inmate in jail or prison for the following reasons: • It requires little to no staff, versus the staff required to move inmates to and from the visit and watch over the visit. It ses the Gaston County Jail Annex money. • It removes any opportunity for contraband (drugs) to enter the facility. • It can become a profit center for the facility, given that the revenue generated by visits is shared with the jail. • While inmates prefer to see family and friends in person, video visitation allows them to visit with them more often, and on a whim. • Video visitation gives the inmates and their visitors the feeling of more privacy. Video visitation from the perspective of the visitor allows them to visit from their home, their car, at work, and even allows them to take their device to a family or religious gathering. It allows them to give their inmate the feeling of belonging and not being forgotten.
Video visitation can take place on a computer, a tablet or a phone.
Video visitation ses time. Instead of spending hours driving to the jail, checking in, filling out paperwork, potentially being searched, waiting, and then hing a 15–30-minute visit, if it isn’t cancelled at the last minute, the visit can be done from anywhere during a short break in the visitor’s day.
If the visitor does not he access to a phone or computer, they can make an appointment ahead of time and use terminals in the lobby of the jail.
You must also be on the inmate's approved list, even for a video visit.
Who are the companies that facilitate video visits?There are several different companies that contract with all the jails and prisons that allow video visitation:
These are the companies in alphabetical order:
CIDNET City Tele Coin Correct Solutions Group Correct Pay Ctel Gettingout GTL Homew IC Solutions Inmate Canteen Inmate Sales iwebvisits JailATM Jpay Gettingintouch (netvisit) NCIC Prodigy Sales Reliance Securus Smart Communications Tiger Services Visitel In addition, some jails use Microsoft Meeting and Zoom.