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Interview with Tommy

JM: Did you have regular access to telephones?
Tommy: You could use the phone during any of the recreation periods in the day.

JM: What types of charges applied for calling people? How much money would you guess the average inmate spends per week on phone calls?
Tommy: As I recall the company they used for the calls cost 5 dollars for every call and two minutes for every minute. You were allowed a free five minutes for the first time you called any number, though. I'd guess the average for a week of calls would probably be $45-50 dollars

JM: Did you need to buy phone cards to call out?
Tommy: You did not, nor did you have the option to. Your family (or whoever you were calling) had to set up an account with the phone company the jail works with and put money on the account themselves.

JM: Did the jail screen your calls?
Tommy: They listen to every phone call and occasionally somebody would say that they were disconnected for inappropriate language, but it never happened to me personally.

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