FCLCA is a co-sponsor of Sen. Holly Mitchell’s Senate Bill 1157, Strengthening Family Connections: In-Person Visitation. This bill preserves in-person visitation for people who are incarcerated in local detention and correctional facilities, including those detained under immigration holds, awaiting trial or serving sentences,and minors held in juvenile facilities.
Research shows that family contact and in-person visits when a person is incarcerated have numerous benefits: they help to maintain family stability, reduce disciplinary problems, reduce recidivism, and facilitate successful re-entry.
Increasingly, California counties are eliminating in-person visitation and adopting video visits, in which families can only see each other over a video screen. Also increasingly new jails are being built that allow for video visitation only.
This is a very timely bill that can preserve important in-person visitation before it’s too late. Please let your senator know today that you support this bill and ask them to vote YES on Senate Bill 1157.
TAKE ACTION! Please let your senator know today that you support this bill and ask them to vote YES on Senate Bill 1157.