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Telephones

Interview with Maria, Tommy, Mark, Marilyn, Rafael and Blair

JM: Did you have regular access to telephones?
Maria: yes in g-p we did
Tommy: all day
Mark: Most of the day, phones are turned off around midnight for a couple hours
Marilyn: yes we could use the phone daily
Rafael: Yes
Blair: Yes, I was able to make call anytime the Day- Room was open.

JM: What types of charges applied for calling people? How much money would you guess the average inmate spends per week on phone calls?
Maria: about 3.15 to connect plus 10 cents amintue
Tommy: expensive calls
Mark: You can only call collect, and it costs about $5 for a 3 minute call
Marilyn: the call will be a collect call, and usually cost the person your calling A Lot of $. i would say if the inmates talked 2 times a week it would cost on average $ 25 a week
Rafael: Collect calls charges. 30$ a week
Blair: The calls were on a per minute basis. My wife placed $50 per week on my phone account. I made 3 10-minute calls everyday.

JM: Did you need to buy phone cards to call out?
Maria: no
Tommy: no
Mark: You can basically only make a collect call, if you call a cell phone the person recieving the call has to put in a credit card number or the call will not be connected
Marilyn: no i dont think that those were a avalible
Rafael: No
Blair: Phone cards were not sold to inmates. Individual accounts had to be managed by family, unless an individual was willing to take a collect call.

JM: Did the jail screen your calls?
Maria: yes
Tommy: hell yea
Mark: Yes
Marilyn: they say that the do
Rafael: It had it a sign that they did
Blair: Yes, we were told that all calls were recorded

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