Megan McArdle, Columnist

Stop Squeezing Prisoners' Families for Cash

Replacing visitors' hours with costly videoconferencing is a short-sighted policy.

December 12, 2017 at 5:15 PM UTC

By Megan McArdle

Megan McArdle is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist.

Prison is hard enough without adding burdens on poor families.
Photographer: Photographer: Noah Berger/Bloomberg

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Get caught committing a felony, and the government is apt to do terrible things to you. Stick you in a cage. Control what you eat, when you sleep, what you do with your time.

Should the government also be allowed to prevent you from seeing your family?