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Reach Out and Defraud Someone: Oregon Jail Prisoners Commit Phone Scams

Loaded on Nov. 15, 2010 by Mark Wilson published in Prison Legal News November, 2010, page 24
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates. Location: Oregon.
A fifteen-minute collect call from the Multnomah County jail in Portland, Oregon costs $2.35, billed to the party who accepts the call. Between May 2006 and April 2009 those calls generated $3.5 million in revenue for the jail’s phone service provider, Texas-based Securus Technologies, Inc., while the county’s 38% kickback ...

 

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