Women Against Registry: Call to Action Seminole County, Florida – Video visits replacing in-person visits.
Seminole County Jail inmates can no longer handle letters or pictures mailed by family and friends as a new system requires those incarcerated to view digital copies of their messages.
Under an agreement between the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office and Smart Communications Holding Inc., a Tampa-based company, the jail also plans to replace all in-person visits at the jail with a video-visitation system.
If you are in Seminole County please call your state senator and representative to express your concern about the rights of the families who have loved ones in this facility.
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Vicki Henry
Women Against Registry, President
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I’m glad WAR (Vicki) and ACLU are taking umbrage with this barbaric practice. First there’s the privacy concern. While I was incarcerated at a Floriduh prison, NONE of my mail EVER arrived open. I understood they read only what went out while the incoming mail was x-rayed and sniffed by dogs. Secondly, the money grab is just another in a long line of schemes by FDOC and their family/cronie owned business partners to make profit off inmates (free forced labor, overpriced Keefe commissary) and their families (fees for everything), while feeding inmates slop (Aramark), substandard medical and dental care, and offering no rehabilitation, education, or skill training.
Orange county went to video visitation years ago saying it was for facility security. However they failed to mention at the time it also made the visits easier to monitor and record and by doing so made them subject to public records laws who wants to bet electronically copied letters fall under the same category.
Does anyone need more proof that our prison system in Florida and all over the USA is nothing but an industry geared to exploit the inmates and their families?? You’re living in a police state people. Please open your eyes and realize this. And we wonder where the yellow vest protests came from!!