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Re: Phone Charges to be Reduced For Families of Inmates in New York

hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
8 Jan 2007 19:37:07 -0800

TELECOM Digest Editor noted in response to Danny Burstein:

> By the way, its great the state decided to give a break to the
> families of inmates. Prison phone systems have always been a terrible
> rip off most of the time. PAT]

Yes.

The families committed no crime and the state should not make any
profit off of them.

More importantly, family contact with inmates help reduce repeat
crime. Phone service to offenders and their families reduces crime
and trouble in prison.

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Lisa, Lisa, Lisa ... you are missing
the point entirely. Whether the families 'committed no crime', or not,
police generally believe that 'prisoners are scum, in fact, most of
the people we 'serve' are scum, so by logical extension, the families
of prisoners are scum as well. And the corrections industry is _very_
dependent on the local police officer to keep on stocking them up
with prisoners. You start reducing trouble in prisons and trying to
reduce recidivism -- which the corrections industry depends on greatly
-- and first thing you know, the whole system will fall apart. Cook
County Jail (Chicago) and Riker's Island, NY have thousands of
employees between them who depend on still having their jobs tomorrow
and forever. Please stop and _think_ before you praise anything which
even slightly reforms prisons. PAT]

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