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Children need in-person visits with incarcerated parents
Genesis Rodriguez and Jamila Small, Osborne Youth Action Council members penned an op-ed for the Times Union in support of the Protect In-Person Visiting Bill.
The Protect In-Person Visiting bill (A6488/S3318) would require correctional facilities to offer evening or weekend visiting hours and protect in-person visiting hours from being replaced with video.
Families like ours are afraid that correctional facilities in New York will drastically reduce or eliminate visiting hours in favor of video conferencing — an alarming trend that has been years in the making and was only exacerbated by the pandemic. In a 2019 survey by the Marshall Project, more than a third of respondents across 32 states indicated they had no option to visit their loved one in person.
Read the full piece here.