Posted on 10/21/2015 4:32:08 PM PDT by markomalley
The idea is to make life so miserable inside the big-house, that folks don’t want to return. (within reason)
None the less, the Leftist mind thinks these people are treated rotten, and that’s “unfair”. Nope, it’s exactly fair.
They didn’t go there without a reason.
More and longer phone calls from felons to family and friends, what could go wrong?
Forever? No.
As long as they are in prison, yep.
That sort of activity is normally done through visitation. Girlfriends and family are the number one conduit for exchanging information and introducing contraband.
WHAT ABOUT MY PHONE BILLS. Gotta be close to a DOZEN fraudulent fees and charges attached every month. I pay my taxes and don’t commit crimes. Stop MY EXCESSIVE PHONE BILLS.
According to this chart, a 15 minute collect call via AT&T would cost $28.34.
So far as I am aware, inmates are required to make collect calls, as they aren't allowed to have cash to feed a payphone.
If this chart is correct, it would seem that prisoners (or prisoners' families) are actually getting a price break already.
The phone call rates from prisons are an absolute disgrace.
It’s a pure ripoff of an admittedly captive audience. It’s not just the prisoners, but the families also - who often aren’t that flush themselves - have to pay extortionate rates. The goal of prison should not be solely to punish but also to rehabilitate offenders back into civil society. That is hard to do if contact with the outside world is overly restricted.
It’s an incredible scam perpetrated by the criminal-industrial complex.
Take a peak into the charges for simple phone calls. They are jaw dropping.
um.. why are they allowed to call anyone from jail to begin with!
Next, you will be trying to tell us that they don't let dead folks vote, either.
I agree. And keep in mind, prisons may become populated by folks who simply refused to bake a cake for someone.
Please, someone tell me why I should care what it costs an inmate, a felonious piece of human detritus, a useless drain on society, to make a damned phone call?
The Federal Communications Commission thinks they are.
Well, I'm glad they're so concerned.
But why can't they stop Rachael from calling me two and three times a day?
Why can't they stop off-shore scammers from spoofing a lost/stolen credit card notification number and making life hell for those that believe it is real?
Why can't they stop the piece of crap in Las Vegas that keeps calling me and telling me that I won a a $250,000.00 dollar jackpot and I ain't been near Vegas in over three years?
Why can't the FCC look at MY damned phone bill and be concerned about all the stinking fees and taxes tacked on for God knows what?
Why?
Why indeed!
Several years later, at least in medium facilities, phones were put on the housing units, but the calls were still all collect. The difference was that the inmate made the call himself through a phone company operator. And because the inmate was actually making the call, they were no longer limited to the state approved number list. The inmates themselves policed the booths with those wanting to make a call, signed up for a certain time on a sheet of paper outside the booth.
Fast-forward more years, and the state installed phones in the yard that the inmates could use out there if they chose to go to the yard instead of staying on the unit to make their call. These were less private, because the phones were hung on poles cemented into the ground.
I've been retired since 2003, so don't know if there have been any changes, but I highly doubt that much has changed, especially the fact that all calls are collect. It isn't the inmates getting charged, it's the people who accept the collect calls. If they don't want to have to pay high phone bills, all they have to do is decline the call. During all the years I worked in Corrections, all inmate calls could be listened to by uniformed personnel, and recorded if deemed important to security.
If this chart is correct, it would seem that prisoners (or prisoners’ families) are actually getting a price break already.
In addition to that, the idea that people here can compare their communication system and cost to what is needed in prison shows that they are COMPLETELY lacking in understanding of the situation..........
And over on the Left hand, govt believes the costs of O’Care are just fine and dandy.
But, what else does anyone expect from the most corrupt administration from an agency created from whole cloth and no Constitutional authority.
Silly me, bringing up that old document like that. My bad!
most of the rational states do not allow felons to vote.
Almost all states allow felons who have served their time, to vote, some conditions must be met in some states.
Two states allow incarcerated felons to vote by absentee ballot.
…I've been retired since 2003, so don't know if there have been any changes, but I highly doubt that much has changed, especially the fact that all calls are collect. It isn't the inmates getting charged, it's the people who accept the collect calls. If they don't want to have to pay high phone bills, all they have to do is decline the call. During all the years I worked in Corrections, all inmate calls could be listened to by uniformed personnel, and recorded if deemed important to security.
Please see post #25...
And pray, how do you accommodate 2,000+ inmates in a facility to have this avenue of communication? Are you planning on giving each inmate a computer or other device to conduct their Skype visits, emails and texts? Then there's the whole security issue, not only for the facilities, but for the innocent civilians outside the prison who could be preyed-upon. The State, City, or County prisons/jails aren't going to pay for the internet service, let alone hire the staff or equipment necessary to monitor the inmate's use.
Western Union already has the monopoly in sending inmates money for their commissary accounts. That is real nice racket.
If the convicts chose to stay out of jail/prison, then the people they call wouldn't be stuck with high phone bills. And all they have to do is decline to accept the calls.
Last week the Bureau of Prisons decreed no more pork
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That order has been rescinded.
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