Abstract: An incarcerated individual communications and/or media access system may include a Virtual Private Network (VPN) secured personal incarcerated individual communication and/or media device and an incarcerated individual communications and/or media cloud access platform hosted by a computing cloud. The VPN secured personal incarcerated individual communication and/or media device includes an operating system incorporating a secured VPN as a (only) channel for the personal communication and/or media device to connect to any wireless carrier and a designation of a (n) (only) wireless carrier that the VPN secured incarcerated individual personal communication and/or media device is allowed to connect with and/or communicate through. The incarcerated individual communications and/or media cloud access platform receives communications terminated by the wireless carrier from, and to, the VPN secured personal incarcerated individual communication and/or media device and processes and/or controls the communications.

Abstract: Information associated with a controlled-environment facility resident communications and/or data device, such as device location within the controlled-environment facility, may be used to determine whether the resident device is approved for two-way video visitation or restricted to on-way video visitation. Video visitation may be initiated and voice and video captured and streamed by a non-resident communications and/or data device, as well as voice and/or video captured and streamed by the resident device, is received by a controlled-environment facility electronic communications management system. Voice and video captured at the non-resident device is transmitted to the resident device and, if the resident device is permitted two-way video visitation, voice and video captured by the resident device is transmitted to the non-resident device, if the resident device is restricted to one-way video visitation, only voice is transmitted to the non-resident device.

Abstract: Information associated with a controlled-environment facility resident communications and/or data device, such as device location within the controlled-environment facility, may be used to determine whether the resident device is approved for two-way video visitation or restricted to on-way video visitation. Video visitation may be initiated and voice and video captured and streamed by a non-resident communications and/or data device, as well as voice and/or video captured and streamed by the resident device, is received by a controlled-environment facility electronic communications management system. Voice and video captured at the non-resident device is transmitted to the resident device and, if the resident device is permitted two-way video visitation, voice and video captured by the resident device is transmitted to the non-resident device, if the resident device is restricted to one-way video visitation, only voice is transmitted to the non-resident device.