Even before covid, some prisons eliminated in-person visits and instituted some proprietary and predatory-priced video calling https://www.npr.org/2016/12/05/50

Even before covid, some prisons eliminated in-person visits and instituted some proprietary and predatory-priced video calling https://www.npr.org/2016/12/05/504458311/video-calls-replace-in-person-visits-in-some-jails https://www.npr.org/2016/12/05/504458311/video-calls-replace... and even phone calls are super expensive https://www.npr.org/2022/10/23/1130782415/incarcerated-people-pay-about-5-dollars-for-a-30-minute-phone-call-a-new-bill-wa https://www.npr.org/2022/10/23/1130782415/incarcerated-peopl... I'm sure covid has been used to accelerate the end of in-person visits.