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Florida County Makes Free Jail Phone Calls Available
Loaded on April 1, 2024
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2024, page 12
On October 1, 2023, phone calls became free for some 860 jail detainees at the jail in Florida’s Alachua County, whose Board of Commissioners voted for the change six months earlier. That brought the cost from 21 cents per minute to zero, though for no more than three daily …
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