Va death row inmate challenging video visits, says he's no more dangerous than other killers

Richmond Va. — A Virginia inmate who has killed two prisoners is challenging the state's policy of denying him in-person visitation with his family, arguing he's no more dangerous than some of the other killers on death row who get to talk to their loved ones face to face.

A Circuit Court judge recently sided with death row with inmate Robert Gleason Jr., ruling that the state Department of Corrections must grant him in-person visitation with his child and other family members rather than visitation through closed-circuit video. But the Attorney General's Office challenged that decision in court papers filed last week, saying that requiring prison staff to move Gleason for in-person visitation would put them and other prisoners "at substantially greater risk."  More   PrisonerPal.com   True Crime Today  Magazine Subscriptions for Prisoners since 1975