Adams Co. sheriff to discontinue video visitation at jail
NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) – Visitation at the Adams County Jail is about to change.
Sheriff Travis Patten tells The Natchez Democrat that starting April 29 the jail would scrap the Homewav video visitation program in favor of a traditional jail visitation program.
Using the video systems, family members of inmates would install an app on their phone or computer that would allow them to send a message to an inmate in the jail.
The video calls were limited to 20 minutes, and came at a cost of 50 cents a minute.
Patten says that was a big part of the problem when families couldn’t keep up with the cost of checking in on an incarcerated loved one.
The sheriff says visitation will return to across a table with a glass barrier between the inmate and family members.
