Patent ID: 8620711

Claim:
An inmate visitation system, comprising: means for determining via a prison interface if the inmate has visitation privileges and, if not, then not allowing any visitation; means for receiving a visitation request only from an inmate having said visitation privileges for a plurality of potential visitors to attend the same visitation with said inmate at a correctional facility in which said inmate is housed, each of said potential visitors being named in said request by said privileged inmate; means for sending a registration request to each of the plurality of potential visitors based upon the received visitation request; means for receiving registration information from said each of said plurality of potential visitors based upon the sent registration request; means, responsive to operation of said registration information receiving means, for determining whether the visitation request for said each of said plurality of potential visitors from the privileged inmate is approved or disapproved; means for communicating the approval or disapproval of the visitation request for said each of said plurality of potential visitors; and means, operative in response to said registration receiving means, for permitting one of said plurality of said potential visitors to schedule said same visitation for all of said plurality of potential visitors if said visitation request is approved for said all of said potential visitors and for permitting said one of said plurality of said potential visitors to make a decision selected from the group of decisions consisting of allowing said visitation and canceling said visitation if said visitation request is not approved for said all of said potential visitors.