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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)

Image of a male doctor holding a sign which reads I stayed at work for you, you stay at home for us.Doctor asking us to stay home

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

09/30/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

10/01/2020

Date Created (Dublin Core)

09/30/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

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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