[Raplh]

Arrested, but not convicted, the only way to talk to my brother in law in jail was to pay a few $ per minute when he called us collect. I have read descriptions of why the jails should limit calls thusly, with contracts to providers that pay a lot of money to the jails to give them the monopoly telephone service, and they are BS!

I'd love to see how much problem jails had with contraband cellphones if they provided monitored telecom to any prisoner on a fairly abundant schedule for free. I bet most of that contraband cell phone is there at all because the "legal" communication is so onerous.