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Telephones

Interview with Jon, Sabrina, Ronchie Boy, Gary, Lance, Seth, Liz, Nate, Duane and Aaron

JM: Did you have regular access to telephones?
Jon: yes
Sabrina: yes but you can only call landlines and really who answers those...
Ronchie Boy: during rec time you could use the phone all you want as long as there isn't a line. If there was, then you had about 10 minutes.
Gary: yes collect calls only 5 min.max
Lance: Yes I did.. but only during our "Recreational Time"... it was easily accessible... You can't use it during your "Lockdown" Periods though...
Seth: yes we had access to phones.
Liz: you could use the pay phones during rec time, but only a few of the phones were ever working properly so you would have to wait in line for a good one and sometimes rec was over before you were able to get to a phone.
Nate: Only when it was free time.
Duane: yes, but there were always lines
Aaron: Yes, it's all recorded and a bit pricey to call so keep that in mind.

JM: What types of charges applied for calling people? How much money would you guess the average inmate spends per week on phone calls?
Jon: My people had to set up a account, but it was like 3 or 4 dollars for 15min
Sabrina: probly a lot but no one really cared about that just getting me out was important ebough
Ronchie Boy: you had prepaid service called Global Tel Link.
Gary: some inmates none others would be on the phone all of the time im geussing that some would run up collect calls up to 1000.00 a week NO JOKE!
Lance: Well I can imagine a lot.. The collect calls are expensive to accept.... I spent about $25 during my time there..
Seth: well for starters people had to have a account with money on it so you can call them. that was backwards to me because its like how are people suppose to know to put money on an account for something they dont know of but anyways yea and for local calls it was i think 2 dollars and for non local calls it was about 4 dollars or more, depending on where you are calling out to.
Liz: you could only make collect calls. and it was 1.75 for the first minute and 10 cents after that for a total of 15 minutes.if you had to call long distance it was considerably more .
Nate: That really depends it can get expensive I would say close to 20 dollars a week.
Duane: it was not cheap. I forget how much it was but my mother was okay with it.
Aaron: I put money on my call account before I committed in . $50 but I only used about $20 on phone calls.

JM: Did you need to buy phone cards to call out?
Jon: No I wish you could
Sabrina: no
Ronchie Boy: people on the outside deposited money to make phone calls.
Gary: no collect calls only but they had advertisements all over on how your familly could pre pay their cell phone to accept you collect calls from different company's (just antother way for the jail to make money off of your hard ship)
Lance: You couldn't buy phone cards.. even though I figured you'd be able to... Don't understand why they don't offer that.... instead.. you have to set up a pre paid account if the phone you're calling doesn't accept Collect Calls...
Seth: you didnt need to but i think people did im not sure.
Liz: they didn't have phone cards when i was there, only collect calling was allowed.
Nate: I didn't because I wasnt callin long distance
Duane: not at the time. we did have to set up some kind of account
Aaron: No, set up the account. Look at the Sno-Co Jail website how to do it.

JM: Did the jail screen your calls?
Jon: It says that they do
Sabrina: yes of course they did
Ronchie Boy: that I'm not sure
Gary: absolutly ! ! ! !
Lance: I'm sure they did...
Seth: yes the jail listens in on your conversations.
Liz: yes all calls were recorded.
Nate: Yes every call was being monitored
Duane: they screen everything. you know how that works.
Aaron: Absolutely!!!

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