TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Phone Charges to be Reduced For Families of Inmates in New York

Phone Charges to be Reduced For Families of Inmates in New York

Danny Burstein (dannyb@panix.com)
Mon, 8 Jan 2007 18:41:05 EST

The Governor today announced that the State Deofrtment of Correctional
Services will reduce excessive telephone charges paid by the families
of inmates at state correction facilities. This action precedes a
previously scheduled argument slated for Tuesday, January 9, before
the New York State Court of Appeals, during which the plaintiffs are
challenging the legality of the previous administration's policy
relating to the telephone costs.

"Long seen as an unfair tax on inmate families, the newly proposed
rates will charge only the cost of the call, allowing families to
maintain contact with their loved ones, without the undue financial
burden of a State commission on the rate. ...

Rest:
http://www.ny.gov/governor/press/0108071.html
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Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Thanks for passing this along; another
item on prison phones and Asterick appears later in this issue.

So Danny, exactly _what_ happened in NYC early this morning? All we
heard here most of the morning on the radio was that someone or some
(terrorist?) organization had released a huge quantity of 'gas' all
over your city. It is uncertain what was being attempted; Mayor B.
thought it might have been an attempt to 'gas everyone to death', but
the mixture was not of sufficient strength to do any damage. Apparently
everyone could smell it, however. Any ideas? Was it terrorists at work?

By the way, its great the state decided to give a break to the
families of inmates. Prison phone systems have always been a terrible
rip off most of the time. PAT]

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