A investigation by Prison Legal News exposes how prisons are getting fat kickbacks from telephone companies in order to land exclusive service contracts, which they then use to charge sky-high calling rates. There's usually a connection charge of $3.00 or more and it can cost upwards of $.89 a minute. That means a 15-minute collect call can end up costing $10-$17. Compare that to the $.05 or $.10 most customers pay. Because the calls are often collect, it's the prisoners' families that end up paying the price.
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Nothing wrong with this. Suprised it took this long to bring it up for news.Been going on for years.Taxpayers are footing the bill for the upkeep.
ReplyDeleteToo bad. So sad.
ReplyDeletePrisoners are always complaining about their lot.
Prison should be hell on earth-- something somebody would NEVER want to go to or return to.
Then it would be effective.
As it is, it's just a big drain on taxpayers with very little benefit.
Nothing wrong with this? Prisoners complaining? smh
ReplyDeleteI don't even know why I bothered to post on this one. Some are ignorant and will always be ignorant.
Somebody else point out the obvious.