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A Colorado jail hasn’t allowed in-person visits in nearly 20 years – here’s what research says about visitation’s effects

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par Jillian Turanovic, Professor of Sociology, Co-Director of the CU Center on Crime and Justice, University of Colorado Boulder
Melinda Tasca, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Texas at El Paso

The Adams County Jail, just north of Denver, does not allow in-person visits. Over the course of their incarceration, people detained there will never share a visiting room with their families and children, or even sit across from them behind a plexiglass barrier.

As in nearly all county jails across Colorado’s Front Range and a growing number of county jails…

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