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Louisiana?s prison telephone rip-off

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Louisiana?s prison telephone rip-off Ronald Fraser Guest Columnist Published: Friday, March 20, 2009 Prison inmates who use the telephone to maintain strong family ties will be better prepared to rebuild their lives upon returning home. Why then do Louisiana elected officials allow price gouging phone companies to drive prison telephone rates sky high, isolating state inmates from the outside world? The cost of long distance calling has dropped drastically for most people in Louisiana, but not families of inmates. According to the Federal Communications Commission, nationally, domestic interstate calls in 2006 were billed at just six cents per minute. Yet the Kalamazoo, Mich.-based Campaign to Promote Equitable Telephone Charges, reports that the families of Louisiana inmates pay Global Tel*Link, Louisiana?s current prison phone service monopoly, much more...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 21, 2009 (boomark / email).