The VUGATE Inmate Video Visitation System has become the new standard for streamlining the inmate/civilian visitation process and eliminating many of the common problems associated with visitations.

Since the mid-1980s, VUGate video systems have been in use in video arraignment systems in numerous courts. The benefits of video arraignment are now readily acknowledged in the judicial community. The VUGate Corporation personal desktop videoconferencing systems were invented in 1984, first made commercially available in 1985, and have received several patents in the area of voice-activated switching. As the pioneer of distributed videoconferencing systems, the current products have built on over a decade’s worth of experience on behalf of criminal justice industry clients.

Inmate Stations

In 1995, VUGate pioneered the concept of inmate video visitation to bring operational economies to correctional institutions. The VUGate Inmate Video Visitation System can accommodate on-site or off-site civilian visitation centers. Due to the lack of movement of prisoners, visitations can take place more efficiently and with the elimination of many of the traditional problems associated with the movement of visitors and prisoners through the institutions. Since these are non-contact visits, outside of inmate housing areas, visitations can even be opened up to minors if authorities wish to. The visitation program can now be structured as the authorities would like it to be, rather than how it has to be out of the necessity dictated by space and/or staffing requirements. Visitation hours can be expanded, even while enjoying staff savings. Best of all, staff savings begin from the first day of use.

Visitor Stations

Today, VUGate is the only company in the world known to have installed operational inmate video visitation systems in multiple correctional institutions. Response to these systems through word of mouth in the corrections community has been very impressive. Our first installed institutions have all expanded their systems. Numerous correctional facilities are in the planning and bid stages. With installations from coast to coast, the VUGate Inmate Video Visitation System has become the new industry standard for automating the inmate visitation process.

No other company offers a system as flexible and scalable as VUGate.  Start with any application, such as video visitation, and add any other application you want - when you want.  Add video arraignment, the public defender, the detective bureau, telemedicine and so on, all as a fully integrated network using state-of-the-art communications technology!