Denver county recently published an RFP for jail telephones. It was obvious from the RFP that this was an income stream for the county.
Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 14:07 -0800, Douglas Garstang wrote: >> Aren't pay phones the defacto standard for correctional facilities? >> >> Doug >> > They have a different line class in the US denoting they are from a > correctional facility, and generally there is something like the > truephone system (they have the BOP.gov contract) where inmates have > money stored on an account and its a prepaid calling system. The > product itself I believe is called "ITS" > > The way that the BOP wants it (and presumably others too) is > recording of all calls held for 90 days unless marked for longer > lawyer calls are supposed to be marked, and not > listened to but um yeah they listen they just dont > use it in court - ask any federal lawyer > ability to listen live to calls in progress > daily and monthly total minute quotas > lists of numbers allowed to be called > all calls must be registered first, > there is generally an intake phone that > lets you call anyone collect only > > > Each inmate is assigned a phone code, they have to use that > for all calls. There is actually a lot of money in this given > that truephone charges like 20 cents/min for a US 48 call. > > There are also some behind the scenes data manipulation going > on, one thing that is often done is cross referencing inmates that > have the same number, that way they can see if inmates are sharing > their phone codes with someone else. This is done either by extortion > or outright purchasing of the minutes. Generally they resolve this by > flagging the inmates account, when a call is made they will listen and > ask the guard in that block to identify the inmate at phone X to > see if its the right one. > > So its more than just a normal payphone at many of the facilities. > And some of them are doing deals to get basically kickbacks for the > usage of the phone, where the super high charges made are in part that > high so the jail can get some extra cash from people who are forbidden > from actually working for that money. > > -- Michael Welter Telecom Matters Corp. Denver, Colorado US +1.303.414.4980 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.TelecomMatters.net _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
