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CA: Phone Companies Rip Off Prisoners Families

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Phone Companies Rip Off Inmate Families Phone Rates from Inside Jail Are Unregulated By Charles Montaldo, About.com An Investigation by the Associated Press in California has found that telephone companies and county governments have been bilking millions of dollars from the families of jail and prison inmates by charging high rates for collect calls home. Those who are incarcerated in jail or prison in California cannot make direct calls outside, but must make collect calls. Rates for these calls are not regulated, therefore telephone companies can charge whatever rates they want. According to the AP investigation, collect calls made from California jails are charged an average of seven times as much as the same call would be charged if made from a public pay phone...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 19, 2008 (boomark / email).