A recent article by Andrew Kaufman in the International Business Times reports that Telephone companies are operating unfair monopolies in state
prisons, charging inmates exorbitant prices of more than $1-per-minute calls
and giving kickbacks to the jails, according to a report released in June.
Researchers at the Prison Policy Initiative found that
prison phone companies offer kickbacks of up to 84 percent of revenue to the
prisons, and generate even more revenue by offering bad service, according the
report, entitled “Please Deposit All Of Your Money.”
