Solutions

Benefits from Children Maintaining Contact with Incarcerated Parents

  • Regular contact (i.e. in-person visits, phone calls & video visits) creates the following benefits:

    • Improve social and academic outcomes for children

    • Improves prisoner behavior 

    • Reduces recidivism

    • Reduces children’s aforementioned health and behavioral problems

  • Solutions to facilitate in-person prison visits:

    • Caregiver mitigation laws

    • Proximity laws

    • Transportation funding

    • Policy reform

  • Solutions to increase prison video visitation:

    • Leverage free Zoom model to negotiate new contracts that allow for free video visit model

    • Adopt technology for other uses

    • Ensure satisfactory reliability metrics

    • Partner for Internet access

Solutions to Facilitate Contact