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Telephones

Interview with Katy, Sarah and Laura

JM: Did you have regular access to telephones?
Katy: Yes, you have access to telephone and can make calls if you have money for a calling card.
Sarah: Yes. Once phone was available 6am-10 pm for 12 inmates
Laura: Yea there was 1 phone in D pod because it was a smaller pod, but B and C had 2 phones in it

JM: What types of charges applied for calling people? How much money would you guess the average inmate spends per week on phone calls?
Katy: You can make collect calls to a home phone. It has to be set up through a phone company to accept the collect calls. The charges on the calling cards were $6 for 3 phone calls, up to 30 min each. It doesn't matter how long you talk per phone call, it uses one call up even if you talk for 2 minutes.
Sarah: Each call would be 30 minutes long and cost $1.75 per call. I called home a minimum of 1x a day and my best friend 1x a day. That would be about 21.0 a week.
Laura: I was lucky Clermont has pretty good deals for phone calls if you get the phone cards. I believe a 15 dollar phone card got you 5 phone calls. Or people would play games to get them

JM: Did you need to buy phone cards to call out?
Katy: Yes, or you can call collect to home phones that have been set up to accept collect calls.
Sarah: In 2001 all calls were collect.
Laura: you could call collect but I think it's expensive for collect

JM: Did the jail screen your calls?
Katy: It says they monitor them but I don't know if they do or not.
Sarah: All calls had the possibility to be recorded or monitored.
Laura: yes they did all the time

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