tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post6162206314806972371..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Selected cell-phone jamming may boost prison phone revenueGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-59834774778445904222012-04-23T08:11:41.405-05:002012-04-23T08:11:41.405-05:00Phillip - You actually can buy writing material fo...Phillip - You actually can buy writing material for inmates. You have to go to an approved vendor, but you can buy paper and envelopes, as well as books, calendars and notepads, etc. There a few like notesandnovels, rosiesgraphics, inmatepaper that you can buy from. They only sell approved items.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-60452498435395699922012-04-21T14:49:49.889-05:002012-04-21T14:49:49.889-05:00Loved ones and friends of inmates have been raped ...Loved ones and friends of inmates have been raped for years by the $!.00 per minute phone companies (my experience). The State has no right to expect free cell phone call disruption services, the cost for which will surely be added to the cost of the calls. <br /><br />BTW, how much kick back are the prisons already getting back from these phone companies??!!! To me that is not a legitimate state revenue source.Thomas Denneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-4568205422915122072012-04-20T19:01:25.212-05:002012-04-20T19:01:25.212-05:00They need to use the same contractors to build pri...They need to use the same contractors to build prisons that built Randall's and Kroger's. <br />My cell never works on those supermarkets.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-48347263272407082952012-04-20T10:32:57.278-05:002012-04-20T10:32:57.278-05:00TDCJ piously claims to try to keep inmates' fa...TDCJ piously claims to try to keep inmates' family ties intact by housing them closest to their home, through visitation, and by making phones available. Truth is that proximity to family seems to play no part in Classification's unit assignments. Visitation is only on weekends, lasts only 2 hours, and requires all visitors to an inmate share those 2 hours. It took us 2 1/2 years of pushing to get a phone put in on the male side of the Young Medical Complex, where many inmates are very sick, several dies each week. Yet even dying men could not call home one last time. Why the deep resistance to having phones there? And the fact that TDCJ chooses to make a profit on phone calls is obscene. They already sell highly marked up commissary items. You cannot send writing and letter supplies like many states- have to be bought at commissary. With today's technology it is only a lack of imagination that prevents setting up a system for these calls that would be secure and all but free. But that would deprive TDCJ of its profits.Phillip Bakernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-38442436070469739022012-04-20T10:11:24.817-05:002012-04-20T10:11:24.817-05:00I disagree, unlimited talk time (and text) on a ce...I disagree, unlimited talk time (and text) on a cell phone, even if monitored is far more appealing than standing at a pay phone talking in the middle of a dayroom and much cheaper once you figure in the added cost of maintaining the home phone and the bill for the provider of the calls. A monthly unlimited cell phone bill is $50, unlimited. A monthly land line is ~$35 plus $67 for the 240 minutes a month. The cost is doubled and your time is limited.<br /><br />But the real reason for my comment...isn't this just another way of jamming?? If you are blocking calls from unapproved numbers then is that not jamming? I would think that would still violate the FCC rules.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-58399434069142299512012-04-20T07:33:20.177-05:002012-04-20T07:33:20.177-05:00Sunray's Wench is 100% right on the money!
I...Sunray's Wench is 100% right on the money! <br /><br />I have incarcerated loved ones and would gladly increase my phone spending triple if TDC would increase the 240 minute limit. I hear that they have the authorization to do so. I just don't understand why they choose not to? As a taxpayer I would love to see them take action towards increasing revenues.<br /><br />If California's phone vendor can convince them that their current cell calls will be made on payphones, then CA is obviously not paying attention. Well, they did let in thousands of cell phones.coleensanleonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-79260876808650269672012-04-20T06:39:14.699-05:002012-04-20T06:39:14.699-05:00To sun ray's wench - The pay phones are monito...To sun ray's wench - The pay phones are monitored and conversations are recorded. Inmates can only call approved numbers and those numbers can only be accessed by a voice recognition system, which a lot of the time doesn't work correctly.<br /><br />Not sure how much of the revenue goes to the state, but J-Pay sure makes money on those calls.RSO wifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09125370082588943280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-18458742827980171462012-04-20T00:14:01.259-05:002012-04-20T00:14:01.259-05:00Those who currently use the cell phones do so beca...Those who currently use the cell phones do so because they do not want their conversations monitored. They are not automatically going to switch to the payphone system.<br /><br />The way to increase revenue is to increase the monthly minute allowance and permit calls to overseas numbers and cell phones. Other states do it - California does it!sunray's wenchhttp://lookingforthecabinbythelake.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-41591425619942707272012-04-19T20:05:39.250-05:002012-04-19T20:05:39.250-05:00Global Tel Link is notorious for ripping off inmat...Global Tel Link is notorious for ripping off inmates' families. They'd never get away with screwing them so if they had any clout.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-69607023915260518152012-04-19T12:26:54.959-05:002012-04-19T12:26:54.959-05:00Let me make sure I've got this correct. This i...Let me make sure I've got this correct. This impetus for blocking cell phones is not because of security, but rather because someone is not getting their money from inmates or inmates' families pockets? Wow. The free market at its finest.Charlie Onoreply@blogger.com