Coronavirus makes relatives want to connect with their incarcerated relatives. But its economic impacts have made the calls’ costs unwieldy.
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Bill that would make prison phone calls free sent to the House
Advocates for a proposal that would allow inmates to make free telephone calls were heartened when the bill was endorsed Tuesday by the legislature’s Appropriation Committee and forwarded to the House of Representatives.
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Legislators consider making prison phone calls free
The state collected $7.7 million last fiscal year from prison phone calls, a cost born by inmates’ families, and ranks 49th – in front of only Arkansas — for the high cost of calls.