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When Prisoners Phone Home

By "eAdvocate"

Corrections purpose? Recidivism is caused by? Justice means? I'm confused!11-28-2009 New York:New York State?s highest court has rejected the last vestiges of a lawsuit by families of inmates who claimed that the prison system overcharged them for telephone calls from their loved ones. The good news is that this suit ? and an accompanying lobbying effort ? has already succeeded in reforming a terribly unfair system.New York, like many states, used the phones in its prisons as a profit center. MCI, which provided the phone service, agreed to pay the prison system 57.5 percent of the fees it charged for prisoners? collect calls. The state then allowed MCI to charge outrageously high rates: 16 cents or more a minute plus a $3 surcharge for every call...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on November 28, 2009 (boomark / email).