In the course of a typical year, there are nearly 12 million jail admissions—almost 20 times the number of annual admissions to state.
Webas jails and prisons increasingly replace visits with videoconferencing, the stories of four inmates—and their families on the outside—demonstrate why human contact is so vital.
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