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# prison visits

Last year
2023
The Explainer x Noteworthy: Are kids being locked out from jailed parents?
‘A long way from normal’: Families say visits to prison still restricted post-pandemic
Some children only get to see their parent in-person once a month and experts are concerned that video calls are replacing visits.
Investigation by Noteworthy finds the number of children visiting prison is 75% of what it was in 2019
Less than a third of prisoners received in-person visits on weeks where data was provided in 2023
Mother-of-two: “I want my kids to know who their father is”
All time
Opinion: Children with parents in prison are silently serving sentences of their own this Christmas
Prison visits to resume across two phases
This TD thinks new prison visiting rules are "incredibly sinister"