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Massachusetts becomes fifth state to make prison calls free (www.wgbh.org)
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[โ€“] zilla 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Im not from the USA. How much does a call usually cost? I guess it is different from state to state and prison.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

16c / min roughly, but it's in conjunction with everything else that costs money, designed to extract cash from inmates outside families. Prisons are for-profit, slave labor camps in a lot of states.