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TexasProgresive

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1. This is another way of profiteering on families

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Thu Oct 22, 2015, 05:34 AM

Oct 2015

I don't know how prisoner phone calls are handled in Massachusetts but in Texas the jail and prison phones are installed and maintained by companies other than ATT, Verizon or Windstream. These companies charge the receiver of the call around $14.00 per minute. A portion of that goes back to the county sheriff's office or prison.

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AG Healey: Phone calls from inmates to loved ones too costly [View all] unhappycamper Oct 2015 OP

This is another way of profiteering on families TexasProgresive Oct 2015 #1

If they are using a land line, the cost to the phone company is one penny per minute. unhappycamper Oct 2015 #2

These companies in Texas are resellers TexasProgresive Oct 2015 #3