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| Ohio slashes cost of prison inmate phone calls to 5 cents a minute, plans to add more phones |
| By greenfieldreporter.com- Andrew Welsh-Huggins |
| Published: 04/01/2015 |
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio prisons agency said Tuesday it was slashing the cost of inmate phone services and planned to install hundreds more phones. The current contract with Virginia-based Global Tel-Link was renegotiated to bring the cost of calls down to 5 cents per minute plus applicable taxes, the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said in a news release. The agency also said Global Tel-Link will replace the agency's 2,000 phones and add 500 more as part of the new contract. The negotiations follow the Federal Communication Commission's 2013 decision capping costs of long-distance calls after years of complaints from families of inmates and prison rights groups. Read More. |
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