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The Cost of Prison Phone Calls Prevents Family Communication, Especially During Covid

Title (Dublin Core)

The Cost of Prison Phone Calls Prevents Family Communication, Especially During Covid

Description (Dublin Core)

Phone calls from incarcerated persons to their families has always been expensive but what many don't realize is that the pandemic has made it even worse. Back in March when much of the nation shut down to prevent the spread of Covid-19 the nations correctional facilities closed as well. Families could not longer visit their loved ones. There have been times when phone calls were also stopped because of the transmission possible through sharing phones and just having people out of their cells. But once phone calls were allowed families faced a new crisis, being able to afford the phone calls. Fees for phone calls from an incarcerated person are charged to the recipient of the call or to the prisoners personal account and cost a lot per minute. With so many people out of work due to the pandemic families are faced with the decision to speak with their incarcerated loved one or buy groceries or pay the rent. This article shares the story of one mother and the impossible decision she is faced with every time her phone displays a call from her incarcerated husband.

Date (Dublin Core)

September 26, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Worth Rises
Jovan Bates

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Chris Twing

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HSE

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

article
images

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

http://web.archive.org/web/20200926201452/https://twitter.com/WorthRises/status/1309869446941605888
http://web.archive.org/web/20201003213945/https://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-bates-prison-phone-calls-0926-20200926-vhfyxovf35enja2id5xjyz5faa-story.html

Source (Dublin Core)

Twitter

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Social Issues
English Politics
English Conflict
English Government Federal

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

expensive
phone call
prison
incarcerated
visit
family
connection
husband
wife
daddy
justice

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

incarceration
phone call
visitation
costs
impossible decision
unfair

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)

10/05/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

10/06/2020

Date Created (Dublin Core)

09/26/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on October 5, 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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