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TX: Phone system for prisoners begins - last state to bar routine phone access for prisoners

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Texas inmate phone system begins By MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press Writer © 2009 The Associated Press April 3, 2009, 12:10PM AUSTIN, Texas ? Texas prison inmates are making routine phone calls for the first time. The Texas prison board was told Friday the first of a planned systemwide program of telephone service to be available to most inmates began working this week at the Henley State Jail in Dayton, east of Houston. The system is being phased in this year throughout the 112 units of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the nation's second-largest corrections agency. Under terms of a contract with a Kansas telecommunications firm, the country's most restrictive telephone policy for state prisoners is ending for an estimated 120,000 inmates who will be allowed up 120 minutes of prepaid and collect calls each month...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 06, 2009 (boomark / email).