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Jun 26,  · Face-to-face visits at UK prisons have been suspended during the Covid pandemic. But Northern Ireland's maximum security jail has become one of the first in the UK to allow inmates to make Zoom. Download the app. An inmate at an Indonesian prison video chats via smartphone with family members. Only one state — Pennsylvania — is using Zoom to . Install the free Zoom app, click on "New Meeting," and invite up to people to join you on video! Connect with anyone on Android based phones and tablets, other mobile devices, Windows, Mac, /5(M).    

 

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New video calls at Maghaberry Prison are allowing inmates to connect with a wider circle of friends and family outside than ever before. Face-to-face visits at UK prisons have been suspended during the Covid pandemic.

But Northern Ireland's maximum security jail has become one of the first in the UK to allow inmates to make Zoom calls to people all over the world. For some prisoners, it has meant seeing family for the first time in years.

Before the pandemic only face-to-face visits were permitted. As we approach the computer terminal, Darren's family appear on screen and there is immediate laughter. He has shaved his head since their last call and they are seeing the new look for the first time. As his family peered in from their living room, a young child giggled and said: "He changed his hair! It's a lift. We don't physically get to see him and it's not for the same length of time, but 20 minutes is better than nothing.

Contact with family is considered important for the mental wellbeing of prisoners and as an aid to reducing offending. HMP Maghaberry has made major changes to its regime to reduce the risk of infection during the coronavirus pandemic. Prisoners are still able to leave their cells for between six and ten hours a day, but many educational classes have stopped and inmates are now only able to mix with others on the same landing. One prison officer told us he believes that restricting prisoners to their own landings has in fact strengthened some relationships between inmates and staff.

Staff have run some alternative fitness activities on landings, to try to keep prisoners occupied while gym and activity spaces are now out of bounds. HMP Maghaberry has also accelerated the opening of a new building during the pandemic to reduce the number of prisoners sharing cells.

Only 46 prisoners are now doubled up in cells, compared to more than at the start of the lockdown. More than prisoners have entered HMP Maghaberry during the pandemic and new inmates must now spend 14 days in quarantine.

The strict new regime by the prison staff has resulted in no prisoners testing positive for coronavirus. There is no date set yet for face-to-face visits to resume, but the prison intends to keep the video calls a permanent option for prisoners in future. However will allowing prisoners the opportunity to stay in contact with a much wider circle of family and friends during their sentences be seen as an unnecessary luxury?

Over prison officers warned about work absence. Prisoners to be temporarily freed due to Covid Contact with family is considered important for the mental wellbeing of prisoners.

Lockdown while locked up. A prison officer in full personal protective equipment PPE in Maghaberry. More on this story.

 

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  Enter the Meeting ID provided by the Officer at the Prison, then select “Join”. If you consent to Zoom having access to your devices microphone or camera, select “OK”.