Item
Prisons and Jails Are Rolling Back Free Phone Calls
Title (Dublin Core)
Prisons and Jails Are Rolling Back Free Phone Calls
Description (Dublin Core)
When Covid-19 hit the US many things shutdown including the nation's prisons. Of course they kept taking in people for incarceration but they no longer allowed visitors. This made connection to the outside world through phone calls even more important. What many people don't know is that each phone call an incarcerated person makes costs money, a lot of money. In the beginning of the pandemic many jails and prisons offered free phone calls, in the case they were even allowing phone calls (that's another story) but as the pandemic has continued for nearly eight months phone calls are no longer free or reduced cost. This is an undue burden on a population that is facing high unemployment.
Date (Dublin Core)
September 11, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Wanda Bertram
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Chris Twing
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HSE
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
article
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
http://web.archive.org/web/20200917150539/https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/09/11/free-calls/
Publisher (Dublin Core)
prison policy initiative
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Economy
English
Government Federal
English
Government State
English
Social Issues
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
prison
jail
incarceration
telecom
money
phone call
roll back
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
incarceration
prison
recession
unemployment
phone call
jail
Collection (Dublin Core)
Incarceration
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
09/30/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
10/01/2020
Date Created (Dublin Core)
09/30/2020
This item was submitted on September 30, 2020 by Chris Twing using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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