Sentences with phrase «inmate calling rates»

As a result, they say, about two decades of efforts to address high inmate calling rates are back to square one.

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Inmates and the people they call have no other choice, so they either pay those rates or forgo phone calls.

Criminal justice reform advocates say the lack of competition in the market for inmate calling services is a main cause of sky - high prison phone costs — hence the need for rate caps.

The problem is exacerbated by the widespread use of so - called «site commissions,» financial arrangements in which telecom companies return a chunk of their inmate calling revenue back to prisons, as The Verge reported in a 2016 investigation of exorbitant prison phone rates.