People in jail are often charged outrageous prices to make phone calls to their families. And that's bad, because keeping close to their families can help in eventual rehab.
Paying a $4.25 connection fee and then 75 cents per minute thereafter seems costly, unless, perhaps, were talking about a phone call from our future Mars colony back to Earth. It is, though, what an operator at the phone company Global Tel*Link says it costs for a call from Pennsylvanias Carbon County Correctional Facility to anywhere beyond the local calling area. Thats in line with the rates other companies charge for prisoners around the country to make simple long-distance phone calls.
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www.salon.com/2012/10/01 ··· e_bills/$4.25 connection fee and then 75 cents per minute thereafter:
Wow, now THAT should be illegal.
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VoIP providers in general can help with this by providing DID's that are local to the jail, so the call from the jail will be a local call rather than a LD call.
And two lower-cost providers are specifically targeting this market:
JailCall
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www.jailcallservices.com/ConsCallHome
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www.conscallhome.com/index.cfm?