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TBCJ finally approves expanded prisoner phone access

AP brings word that the Texas Board of Criminal Justice yesterday finally passed new rules, discussed earlier on Grits here, allowing most TDCJ inmates more liberal access to telephones in prison. Now the contractor just has to install phone infrastructure in Texas' 106 prisons, no small task but one which should be completed within the year. TDCJ originally had hoped the phone installation would be complete by next month, but those deadline have long ago passed. Said AP:The Texas Board of Criminal Justice has voted to allow prison inmates to use telephones on a prepaid and collect-call basis. The action Thursday ends the nation's last ban on regular phone use by state prisoners. Embarq, a Kansas-based communications company, was awarded a seven-year contract to put the phone service into place...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 15, 2008 (boomark / email).