Families sue Adams County jail for prohibiting visits while earning $3 million on jail phone calls

Families sue Adams County jail for prohibiting visits while earning $3 million on jail phone calls

A handful of Colorado families sued the Adams County Sheriff’s Office this week for refusing to allow in-person jail visits and instead requiring inmates and family members to pay for phone and video calls through a system that has, in five years, put $3.1 million into the sheriff’s coffers. The lawsuit is focused on visits between parents and children, and argues that prohibiting in-person contact between parents and their kids is both a violat…