Family Visitation for Prisoners

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This paper suggests that the U.S. prisoner family visitation system come under review by authorities. The paper maintains that it is just one more tool in the country's correctional system that will keep its prisoners grounded in the fact that they are human, and keep the families grounded in the fact that the incarcerated member is still very much a part of their lives.

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"Family visitation can also give the family who has lost a member to prison a measure of validation , especially when family visits can be tied in with "check-ins" with family support services who can make sure the family on the outside is surviving socially and economically. There may be little external support for a father or mother who is raising children on their own while a spouse is in jail. There is tendency for society to see the removal of the parent as a "comeuppance" not noticing what the effect may be on the blameless ones left behind, which did nothing to bring the grief and loss upon themselves. "

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