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| County hosts first visitation by video |
| By theintelligencer.com |
| Published: 02/12/2013 |
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A closed circuit video hookup at the Madison County Courthouse is allowing foster children as young as 3 years old to visit their incarcerated parent without long drives to a prison. The county’s first video visitation – maybe the first in Illinois – happened on the morning of Jan. 25. Associate Judge Janet Heflin supervised, though she says she stepped aside during the two-hour visit to allow interaction between the participants – a 3-year-old foster child and her father, an inmate at the Taylorville Correctional Facility. The high-tech hook-up saved the Illinois Department of Corrections the expense and time of a 90-minute drive up from Edwardsville to Taylorville. Read More. |
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