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Family contact during facility improvements

How should facilities balance visiting-unit safety approvals with maintaining family contact?

R4 recommends working at the state level to complete inspections and restore use of family visiting units. This question asks residents to consider safety and family ties, not to waive approvals or presume a specific alternative contact policy is required by the report.

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Family contact and safe, accessible spaces both matter during incarceration.

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Evidence from the report

This Phase 1 citation points back to the source material that informed the civic question.

Supporting report

Valley State Prison

Report section
Recommendations R4
Source citation
Valley State Prison, R4, PDF page 10.
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