Detention Center Video Visitation Goes Digital

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office has announced that the Detention Center visitation area has gone digital.

All personal visitors will now visit with inmates over video at the jail. The visitation remains free. As before, personal visitors must come during the inmate’s scheduled visitation times and abide by visitation rules. The schedule and rules are on the Sheriff’s Office web site.

Professional (legal) and clergy visits will remain through glass, like before.

The Detention Center is following the lead of many other jails and correctional facilities around the nation that have switched to video visitation.

It eliminates the possibility that inmates who are known enemies will encounter each other in the visitation room. It also is less staff-intensive. The inmate remains in their cell or dayroom during the visit.

Inmates not on administrative lockdown have electronic tablets and can visit over video with family at any time. However, they must pay through their commissary account for those visits.

KPGZ News - Brian Watts contributed to this story