A visitor computer device and user interface for a computer-implemented video visitation system of a correctional facility includes a processor, a display and an input element for use by a non-incarcerated visitor at a remote location from the correctional facility. The visitor computer device is configured, via a visitor interface presented on the visitor computer device, to accept a selection from a uniquely identified and confirmed authorized non-incarcerated visitor to initiate a visitation session with a uniquely identified one of the incarcerated inmates in the correctional facility. A visitation services computer system is configured to receive the accepted selection, transmit an invitation to a visitation session to the uniquely identified one of the incarcerated inmates in the correctional facility via an inmate computing device in the correctional facility without requiring endpoint control to schedule or initiate the visitation session by administrative personnel of the correctional facility, and establish an interconnection between the visitor computer device and the inmate computer device to commence an electronic visitation session.