obvious from the RFP that this was an income stream for the county.
Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 14:07 -0800, Douglas Garstang wrote:
>> Aren't pay phones the defacto standard for correctional facilities?
>>
>> Doug
>>
> They have a different line class in the US denoting they are from a
> correctional facility, and generally there is something like the
> truephone system (they have the BOP.gov contract) where inmates have
> money stored on an account and its a prepaid calling system. The
> product itself I believe is called "ITS"
>
> The way that the BOP wants it (and presumably others too) is
> recording of all calls held for 90 days unless marked for longer
> lawyer calls are supposed to be marked, and not
> listened to but um yeah they listen they just dont
> use it in court - ask any federal lawyer
> ability to listen live to calls in progress
> daily and monthly total minute quotas
> lists of numbers allowed to be called
> all calls must be registered first,
> there is generally an intake phone that
> lets you call anyone collect only
>
>
> Each inmate is assigned a phone code, they have to use that
> for all calls. There is actually a lot of money in this given
> that truephone charges like 20 cents/min for a US 48 call.
>
> There are also some behind the scenes data manipulation going
> on, one thing that is often done is cross referencing inmates that
> have the same number, that way they can see if inmates are sharing
> their phone codes with someone else. This is done either by extortion
> or outright purchasing of the minutes. Generally they resolve this by
> flagging the inmates account, when a call is made they will listen and
> ask the guard in that block to identify the inmate at phone X to
> see if its the right one.
>
> So its more than just a normal payphone at many of the facilities.
> And some of them are doing deals to get basically kickbacks for the
> usage of the phone, where the super high charges made are in part that
> high so the jail can get some extra cash from people who are forbidden
> from actually working for that money.
>
>
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Michael Welter
Telecom Matters Corp.
Denver, Colorado US
+1.303.414.4980
mike@TelecomMatters.net
www.TelecomMatters.net
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