High prison phone call rates affect not only prisons but...
High prison phone call rates affect not only prisons but the Missouri State Public Defender. “Our experience is that such costs are extremely high -- far higher than rates we are able to find when we have the ability to…
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select a phone carrier ourselves,” Director Cat Kelly told the FCC in a letter posted Monday (http://bit.ly/WFft8h). “Prisoners are literally a captive audience with no ability to select a phone carrier; the carrier is chosen for them, and, thus, us.” The defender has had to limit the number of collect calls it receives, she said. Many calls are under a minute, but they together still cost the office more than $75,000 a year, Kelly said.