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Bell Atlantic and the DOC attack prisoners
Bell Atlantic (formerly NYNEX) and the Department of Corrections work
together to repress prisoners and cut off contact with their families.
Prisoners are restricted to a list of 10 numbers they may call, and must do
so collect. Collect is expensive enough starting at 46 cents, but in prison
it's worse, starting at 86 cents. Bell Atlantic gives 40% of the receipts
to the DOC. Starting March 5, 1999, it goes up to 42%. In other states, the
surcharge can be as high as $3.
Prisoners come from the poorest families in the state, and now the DOC is
trying to get these families to pay even more through the phone charges. In
the first 3 years of the program, the DOC taxed these poor familes $6.6
million. This all serves to discourage outside contact as well as reporting
what really goes on inside the walls.
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