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'Punishment at jail for families, too?' Might web video solve visitation access?

The part of the title in quotes is the headline of a San Antonio Express-News story yesterday about Bexar County Jail visitation that opens thusly:Some days Sylvia Gomez thinks it is harder for her to get inside the Bexar County Jail to visit her son than it would be for him to break out and come to her.It's not the strict dress code, invasive security measures or even the agitated and sometimes unruly residents of the imposing red-brick fortress.For Gomez, 62, and thousands of other visitors, the obstacle is far more mundane: marathon waits in long lines in the summer sun.Apparently there's a dispute regarding whether all the visitors possible are let inside to wait for visitation hours:A lobby with a seating capacity for 80 people is just inside the jail entrance, but most days guards allow a fraction of that number inside at a time ? often as few as 20 people, agreed numerous visitors interviewed over several weeks...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 26, 2010 (boomark / email).