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TX: First ever prison phone system approved. 26 cents a minute for in-state calls

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Over its seven-year run, the contract could generate as much as $600 million in gross revenues, officials estimated." PRISON PHONES First-ever state prison pay phone system approved Inmates will pay 26 cents a minute for in-state calls By Mike Ward AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Thursday, August 14, 2008 A technology partnership today was selected to install a multimillion-dollar pay phone system in Texas prisons to allow convicts to routinely make calls for the first time in state history. Texas is the last state prison system in the nation to allow inmate phones. And the contract has been viewed nationally by vendors as a big prize. Meeting at an Austin hotel, the Texas Board of Criminal Justice unanimously approved a seven-year contract with Embarq/Securus Technologies to install the phones that will digitally record all calls for investigators to monitor...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 14, 2008 (boomark / email).