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Interview with Ralph, Rachel, Fred, Craig and Joe

JM: Did you have regular access to telephones?
Ralph: yes
Rachel: Yes, there was a wall I the dorm of about 5 pay phones, but you couldn't talk on them past a certain hour I think it was 9 or 10
Fred: yes but of course it'll cost you.
Craig: Regular? Sure. When they feel like it, in accordance with regulations or not, is regular in its own way.
Joe: Yes, between the hours of 8AM and 10PM. However during meals and productive day videos, I was not allowed to use the phone.

JM: What types of charges applied for calling people? How much money would you guess the average inmate spends per week on phone calls?
Ralph: well you would have to buy a pay card which is a telephone card and or outside people can put it on there credit card
Rachel: I think it was around $2.50 I always called collect and wasn't the one paying
Fred: again it does depends but where i was it was like 20 for like 15 minutes.
Craig: Wow. Monopolies are NOT illegal within the commissary sytem for penal institutions of any kind, so they charge what they like and the jail gets their cut. One can go through $20 or more in one day - if they can afford, long distance, etc etc.
Joe: Your best bet is putting money on your books, when you do this the jail is going to take $30 out as a booking fee, this is a one time charge. You can then buy phone cards. A 5.20$ card will get you two local calls of a half hour each. Intrastate calls eat up your time at .15 a minute and a 2.60 connection fee. Interstate calls are roughly .24 a minute without a connection fee.= As for collect calls I imagine they were more expensive. I originally setup a phone account online through securus of $75, that was a mistake. I got about 10 phone calls from that because of all their surcharges.

JM: Did you need to buy phone cards to call out?
Ralph: yes
Rachel: No you van callcolect
Fred: you can purchase calling time in the jail
Craig: Of course!!! They want their money FIRST! Duh!
Joe: No you do not, please refer to the previous answer

JM: Did the jail screen your calls?
Ralph: i believe do
Rachel: More than likely. You pretty much relinquish your Constitutional rights when you are in jail, I'm sure all the phone calls are screened. You would have to be pretty dumb to think that they are not listening.
Fred: yes calls thru there are recorded
Craig: Whether they admit or not, OF COURSE!!
Joe: Yes the jail does screen your calls.

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