Ebbie

I had a sibling in prison with drug use/possession conviction. I am not off base with the phone charges, at least not in Virginia.

The charges were higher for families of inmates because the inmates are forced to use the provider the prison contracts with, in this case verizon.

I made a few collect calls to my mom from where I lived in Charlottesville Va to her home in south east Va., which did not cost anything like the calls she had to pay for from my brother who was in a prison only a 20 minute drive away from where she lived.

What the prison gets out of contracting with these companies and permitting these rates, I don't know. But it is not right, especially when inmates need to stay connected with loved ones as part of their rehabilitation.