Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Charles O'Rear) Two lawsuits filed by a civil rights group allege that county jails in Michigan banned in-person visits in order to maximize revenue from voice and video calls as part of a "quid pro quo kickback scheme" with prison phone companies. Civil Rights Corps filed the lawsuits on March 15 against the county governments, two county sheriffs, and two prison phone companies.

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