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Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts) Wed Oct 21, 2015, 12:14 AM Oct 2015

Rattling the Bars, Ep. 1: The real human toll of the inmate calling industry

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Rattling the Bars, Ep. 1: The real human toll of the inmate calling industry (Original Post) Cheese Sandwich Oct 2015 OP

What a scam those prison phone companies are running! JimDandy Oct 2015 #1

Total scam Cheese Sandwich Oct 2015 #2

Me too. JimDandy Oct 2015 #3

JimDandy

(7,318 posts)

1. What a scam those prison phone companies are running!

Reply to Cheese Sandwich (Original post)

Wed Oct 21, 2015, 08:52 PM

Oct 2015

$3 just for the initial connection and $0.30/ min. And the prisoners say the companies constantly hang up in the middle of their calls. That practice generates $3 every time a prisoner has to call back.

Sickening. Time to put a stop to it.

ETA: love Eddie Conway's voice.

Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)

2. Total scam

Reply to JimDandy (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 21, 2015, 09:00 PM

Oct 2015

It's a cool segment I hope they make more of these.

JimDandy

(7,318 posts)

3. Me too.

Reply to Cheese Sandwich (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 21, 2015, 09:09 PM

Oct 2015

I don't know anyone who has been in prison, but the unfairness of this really raises my ire.

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