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PCS Awarded the Wayne County Telephone Contract

By PCS
Published: 10/02/2006

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Los Angeles, CA - September 28, 2006: Public Communications Services, Inc. the industry leader in providing inmate phone solutions to the Corrections Industry, is proud to announce that Wayne County, Michigan Sheriff's Office has signed a 5+2 years contract with PCS, Inc. for their inmate telephone services. The Wayne County Sheriff's Office is the second largest law enforcement agency in Michigan, with more than 1,300 officers among its ranks.

PCS will install and maintain 350 new inmate phones throughout the 3100 inmate beds multiple sites facility.

"Our staff was very impressed with PCS's proposal, which will allow us to provide significantly better telephone service to our jail inmates," said Wayne County Sheriff Warren C. Evans. "As part of their contract, PCS will be implementing a number of new services, including a phone debit card system that will make it easier for our inmates to stay in contact with their family, friends and legal counsel. Between its track record, knowledgeable staff and technological capabilites, PCS clearly stood out from the rest with our selection committee."

PCS' easy to use inmate telephone solution for Wayne County Sheriffs Office includes a sophisticated digital recording and monitoring system, voice check and multiple calling types such as collect, prepaid and debit calling.

"PCS is thankful for this opportunity to provide Inmate Phone Services at the Wayne County Correctional Facilities", said PCS' COO Tommie Joe. "Our phone services for the county's inmates include multiple calling options like debit, prepaid and collect, all of which are offered at a reasonable and fair price. The services provided under this contract will be in line with the County's mission of keeping the inmates connected with their loved ones at a fair and balanced rate."

To ensure complete system and service reliability, PCS will provide the facility with a team of on-call field technicians via NacTech, Inc (MBE/WBE owned) to support the inmate telephones throughout the 5 facilities.

More about PCS

PCS, a pioneer in collect, debit and prepaid phone services, installs and maintains secure, reliable and turnkey inmate phone systems nationwide. For more than 20 years, PCS principals have specialized in inmate communication systems. Few companies in the nation have shown this kind of long-term commitment to inmate communications at correctional facilities. Federal, state and county prisons, as well as private institutions, have found PCS to be the smart solution to inmate phone services.

PCS has also been recently awarded an inmate telephone services contract by the State of Missouri, State of Montana, State of Idaho and State of Iowa DOCs. In addition, PCS has also taken over all of Verizon's inmate correctional facility accounts after Verizon's decision to leave the inmate telephone market. With the acquisition of this new business PCS continues to build its customer base in medium to large correctional facilities nationwide.

For more information on PCS, Inc. please visit our website
http://www.pcstelcom.com

PCS Company Contacts:

PCS Vice President of Sales, Joe Pekarovic 310-954-3015
PCS Director of Marketing, Rudy Zaragoza 310-954-5472

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