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| Inmates could pay for local calls |
| By frontiersman.com- Andrew Wellner |
| Published: 02/10/2015 |
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MAT-SU — Saying that they can’t afford to keep going at the current rates, Securus Technologies Inc. — the company that provides phone service to the state prison system — has asked the Regulatory Commission of Alaska for permission to charge prisoners for local phone calls. “Absent authority to charge for completed, local calls… Securus is forced to provide service under confiscatory terms and conditions and realistically will be unable to continue to provide service to the Alaska (Department of Corrections) upon expiration of its contract in 2015 as it is not economically feasible to do so,” reads the company’s filing, dated Nov. 13, 2014. The company says that changes on the national level have forced it to bring its rates for long-distance calls out of Alaska prisons more in line with what prisoners pay in other parts of the country for such calls. Read More. |
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