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Interview with Jennifer, Robert, Kathleen, Holly, Damon and Wade

JM: Did you have regular access to telephones?
Jennifer: You have phones on all the cell blocks. The person you are calling has to have money on there phone for you to call them.
Robert: yes you have regular access to the phones
Kathleen: Yes I used the phone as much as I could
Holly: Yes if people I talked to put money on the phone.
Damon: yes they were in the day rooms and in the gym
Wade: Yes, I had regular access to phones, a phone book, and in my situation a personal list of phone numbers to call when the phones were available during my processing situation.

JM: What types of charges applied for calling people? How much money would you guess the average inmate spends per week on phone calls?
Jennifer: the charges on the phone is 80 cents for 30 or 15 minutes. the average inmate well me uses about 30 dollars a week calling home.
Robert: it was 80 cents a phone call so after you leave the bull pin you cant call people unless they have the system on there phones.
Kathleen: It was .50 cent a call. If they had someone using a calling card maybe 20 to 30 bucks a week on average.
Holly: U had to get people to get money on there number to speak to them.I guess about 30$ a week.
Damon: i always made collect calls and so did most people I knew. It was too expensive to use commissary.
Wade: In Baltimore County I was generally under the impression that calls were free so long as you kept them under certain time restraints, there was no limit on calls in the general holding situation I faced.

JM: Did you need to buy phone cards to call out?
Jennifer: I didnt have to buy phone cards to call out the person I was calling had to have something set up for there phones to recive inmaste calling.
Robert: no you didnt have to buy a phone card.
Kathleen: No I never did I called collect
Holly: Yes the person had to put money on there number.
Damon: no because I always called collect.
Wade: No, again it was a free call situation.

JM: Did the jail screen your calls?
Jennifer: Yes they have a recorded messgae saying they are listening into your phone calls and everything.
Robert: yes the jail screens your phone calls.
Kathleen: Yes they screened the calls
Holly: Of course the jail screened calls
Damon: yes the phone announced that calls could be screened.
Wade: Presumably yes, all jails monitor phone calls, but I called my lawyer at a point and it is (hopefully) presumed that these calls were un-monitered per law restrictions. As to whether that is true I do not know.

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