Inmate phone calls from the Cuyahoga County Jail cost eight times as much as calls from any Ohio state prison
, a nonprofit which researches criminal justice, took a deep dive into the price of phone calls from jails across the country, and how they stack up against the price of calls from state prisons., which is 10 times as much per minute as a call from an Ohio prison. That disparity was eclipsed only by Illinois, where a minute of phone time from a jail costs 20 times that for prisons.
Congress passed a law in December letting the FCC set a limit for in-state calls as well. Wanda Bertram with the Prison Policy Initiative said the in-state maximum rate will likely be the same as out-of-state calls, which would mean call prices from the Cuyahoga County Jail won’t change. Charles Trowbridge, who is currently incarcerated at Allen Correctional Institution, said that during his last six-week stay at the county jail, he spent $5,000. That included several phone calls a day, many to his three-year-old son, who would sometimes read to him over the phone.
Trowbridge said he had planned to use his savings to start a carpentry business or buy a house. He spent nearly all of it on his legal defense and phone calls. Now, when he’s released, he says he’ll have to start from nothing.
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