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Phone Companies Gouge California Jail Prisoners' Families

Loaded on April 15, 2005 published in Prison Legal News April, 2005, page 23
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, Attorney Calls. Location: California.
by John E. Dannenberg


In a scenario reminiscent of the Spy versus Spy" cartoon, phone companies are gouging California jail prisoners' families with outlandish collect call rates, while prisoners are defrauding the phone companies by taking advantage of new computerized phones to clandestinely bill their defense attorneys for collect calls ...

 

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