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How Prison Phone Calls Became a Tax on the Poor

Loaded on May 5, 2016 published in Prison Legal News May, 2016, page 18
Filed under: Telephone Rates, Family, Fathers in Prison, Mothers in Prison. Location: United States of America.

by Eric Markowitz, International Business Times

On a recent sticky morning in a trailer park in Biloxi, Mississippi, Mary Jo Barnett switched on her 8-inch Samsung Galaxy tablet to speak with her 20-year-old daughter, Amber, who suffers from bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Amber is currently locked up 490 ...

 

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