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Library Video Conferencing Helps Loved Ones Book Visits in the Pen

A woman holds a baby during a Brooklyn Pubic Library tele-visit with an incarcerated person.

When the pandemic hit, New York state prisons banned in-person visits in an attempt to limit the spread of the virus.  The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision began to expand the use of video visits at state lock-ups as an alternative.  Now, the Brooklyn Public Library has begun a program to make it even […]

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