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MA: Telephone company price gouging

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

A bad call for prisoners By Ronald Fraser / As You Were Saying . . . | Saturday, March 14, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Op-Ed It is time to end telephone price gouging in prisons. If phone companies in Florida, Michigan, Missouri and New York can provide inmates with reasonable rates, so can Massachusetts. Prisoners who use the telephone to maintain strong family ties will be better prepared to rebuild their lives upon returning home. Why then does Massachusetts allow price-gouging phone companies to drive prison rates for interstate calls sky high, isolating inmates from the outside world? The cost of long-distance calling has dropped drastically for most Bay Staters, but not for families of inmates. According to the Federal Communications Commission, nationally, domestic interstate calls in 2006 were billed at just 6 cents per minute...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 14, 2009 (boomark / email).