JM: Did you have regular access to telephones? Ron: no!! not allways seems like just when we would
get a good program going the cops would take our
phones from us, this happened alot around the
holidays,to raise up the stress to get us to
fightwith each other so they could lock us back
down & get hazerd pay. Tiffany: There was a phone on the wall when they were
booking me, it looked like it was only to use for
bail bonds services.
In my POD, you have up to four hours in the day
room, outside of your POD. There is two pay
phones there and they call collect to callers,
they must be local. This is the 20th century and
most people don't have home phones. Cell phones
don't accept collect calls. Hugh: Yes, the amount varies with where you are housed,
but you are allowed at least an hour a day. Stevan: Every time we got dayroom
JM: What types of charges applied for calling people? How much money would you guess the average inmate spends per week on phone calls? Ron: something like one doller fifty cents for the
first minute, firteen cents for every minute
after that, really high . most of these phone
companies if not all of them are owned by law
inforcement agencies throughout the united
states.. Hugh: The system has changed a lot, but I remember
someone saying that after a month the bill was
almost $800.00 Stevan: People have to purchase a calling card for bout twenty five
buck that would go fast as fuck
JM: Did you need to buy phone cards to call out? Ron: i was never down or at a place that alowed that
type of phone call systems. Hugh: Now you have to buy cards. Stevan: Yes I did but I didnt
JM: Did the jail screen your calls? Ron: yes if you got a new tattoo, & bragged about it
over the jail phone lines soon you could expect
to get a visit from S&E security & extractionto
check out your new tattoo,s 7 give you a write
up.. Hugh: Yes, it says so before you are connected. Stevan: yes they are all being recorded