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Prison phone companies fight for right to charge inmates $14 a minute
“Everybody sues us about everything,” says FCC chairman.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/prison-phone-companies-fight-for-right-to-charge-inmates-14-a-minute/
Velcome to amerika, comrade"Two things I request of You (Deprive me not before I die): Remove falsehood and lies far from me; Give me neither poverty nor riches— Feed me with the food allotted to me; Lest I be full and deny You, And say, “Who is the Lord?” Or lest I be poor and steal, And profane the name of my God."
[Prov. 30:7-9, Bible, NKJV]From a member who visited a prison. He says the above article is true:
Re: Prison phone robbery squads. It’s true. They charge a connect fee of around $5 and then an outrageous sum per minute. On one call, you might get dropped 3 times…so each time you call back its another $5 connect fee. Coincidence? I say hardly. One time I visited the local county jail and the company was “fixing” the prison pay phone. The jailer was telling the phone tech guy he needed to get it fixed before the next time for prisoners to use the phone cause “they were loosing a lot of money.” So I asked the jailer if the prison got the money and he said no. He said it was this money: If the inmates make enough charges, the phone company gives the entire jail free phone service for that month. So in essence the prison families are paying for the government phones.
"Two things I request of You (Deprive me not before I die): Remove falsehood and lies far from me; Give me neither poverty nor riches— Feed me with the food allotted to me; Lest I be full and deny You, And say, “Who is the Lord?” Or lest I be poor and steal, And profane the name of my God."
[Prov. 30:7-9, Bible, NKJV]
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