A Turkish nongovernmental organization is preparing to introduce online video chatting to juvenile delinquents incarcerated in prisons far from their families.
The Prisoners of Fate Association will roll out their "I am Sorry, Mom" project in the coming days and install computers equipped with video chat software in several prisons.
Necdet Yüksel, head of the NGO, said families, the relatives of juvenile delinquents who live in other cities and handicapped relatives who cannot visit the convicts, will have a chance to talk to them via video chat software. "This will be first of its kind. We will set up video chat rooms in prisons for convicts and those approved by the prison administration will be allowed to use them," he said, and added that they would also seek the approval of convicts to record the video chat sessions and use them for a campaign "to deter young people from turning to a life of crime."
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