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Iowa shouldn’t profit from prisoners’ calls
By desmoinesregister.com- David Ganim
Published: 08/20/2014

The Iowa Department of Corrections will renew or rebid its prison phone services contract in October. We encourage the department to enter into a contract that does not include commission payments and is based on the lowest cost to the call recipients — typically prisoners’ family members — as eight other states have already done.

I realize that the Department of Corrections receives about $650,972 in annual prison phone commission revenue, which is mainly generated from prisoners’ families who accept collect calls, pay for calls from their prepaid accounts or send money to their incarcerated family members for their debit phone accounts.

While the revenue from commissions likely funds many worthwhile programs, there is no legitimate reason why such programs should be funded largely by prisoners’ families and friends through inflated phone rates.

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