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GRAND JUNCTION — The Mesa County jail has ended face-to-face visits between inmates and family, a change partly due to budget cuts.
Inmates once were able to use one of nine private booths to see their families through a glass divider and talk to them with handsets. Now the jail is limiting inmates to talking by video from near their cell to their family members in the jail’s lobby.
Sheriff Stan Hilkey told the Daily Sentinel that the new approach puts less demand on the reduced staff.
Denver Post staff and wire reports
