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Interview with Christian, Robert, Terry, Diana, Gina and Cindy

JM: Did you have regular access to telephones?
Christian: yes there were several phones on the pod
Chris: Sometimes there are some inmates that like to stay on phone all day .
Robert: yes but you had to have card to use them
Terry: At the Hamilton county justice center no, At queen city you had certain times you were allowed to call.
Diana: Yes , whenever u wanted to use it for up to a half hour if the person on the other line paid for the calls and accepted.
Gina: When the c o s didn't take them cause girls where acting up but it cost to much if you where calling a cell phone
Cindy: yes but you can only call collect

JM: What types of charges applied for calling people? How much money would you guess the average inmate spends per week on phone calls?
Christian: that i do not know. i know it is expensive and my family cant afford to accept the calls
Chris: I think it was something like seventy five cent per minute. How much that is spent a week would depend on if there had family to get them phone cards I spent fourth dollars a week.
Robert: I spent over twenty dollars a week on calls, it was a rip off or call collect
Terry: All phone calls were collect only. So if you made several calls a day you owed some one alot of money.
Diana: It costed like 25$ for ten minutes i think. I know it wasn't cheap. Id imagine an inmate spends about 100$ on phone calls.
Gina: 1,95 to call a land line but if you called a cell 2.50 for the first minute and after the first it was 90 cents a minute. Girls spent hundreds a week
Cindy: 1.75 for 15 minutes which is very high and most cant afford it i know i couldnt

JM: Did you need to buy phone cards to call out?
Christian: no phone cards available in hamilton county
Chris: Yes no free calls at all.
Robert: yes you had to buy cards or collect
Terry: No there were no phone cards.
Diana: No, the person your calling needs to pay the money.
Gina: They did give you that choice
Cindy: you can use phone cards or you can have someone put money on the phone on the outside

JM: Did the jail screen your calls?
Christian: the operator/ recording says the do or can
Chris: Yes every jail sceens calls.
Robert: it had signs up saying that
Terry: Yes they listened to every word you said.
Diana: Yes the jail screens your phone calls.
Gina: Yes if they thought you where doing something or talking about your case
Cindy: yes they can listen to every call

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