1 5 minute call per month (if new violations.
No TV, internet or radio other than Christian religious channels.
Food MRE’s
Work 10 hours in field to grow their own food.
Wear Pink
Same ol'/Same ol'......
I don't know about recidivism rates, but denying access to a parental with tyrannical phone rates and doing damage to a child I will stand against.
The keyword here is "families". There are a bunch of reality shows on dealing with prisons that do NOT focus on the harm done to children.
To a small child, just hearing their mom or dad tell them they love them on a regular basis, even if they don't really understand why that parent isn't with them, will work miracles.
What will they whine about next? They murdered or robbed/burgled or sold dope to kids to get in there. Do they deserve to sit on a free phone line with long distance calls paid for by YOU and be rewarded with talking to the families on the phone all day long? lol
In the jails, people usually don’t make but one or two phone calls before they’re bailed out, or get a personal bond if they have a job, and there is no HUGE burden on their families.
The jail sitters will steal each other’s PIN numbers and steal phone calls from each other that has to be credited off their accounts. They will sit there all day until they figure out the code that let’s them bypass the system. And the first time their girlfriend pisses them off, they rip the phone off the wall that costs about $400 to replace plus the cost of replacing the the phone plugs by technicians hired by the county, state, or prison.
And a great majority of their families are living “high” off the hog on their drug money as they sit incarcerated. The first thing you hear is their family demanding to know where their stash of money is, “so we can get you out”, lol And they’re dumb enough to tell them. Remember this is not the best of society you are dealing with here.
Recidivism is nothing but a new buzz word invented by the liberals. The return rate to lock up is abysmally high, including the members of their families. And I cannot tell you how many of them pay for the phone calls with their EBT cards from the government, ADF, and particularly granny with her SS card. Granny’s selling it to them at double the rate, lol (They can go online and prepay their calls and also get a better rate without operator service.)
As for the juvenile facilities, the rate of the calls is pretty normal (Much less than in jails/prisons). And at juvenile facilities the youth is on a step plan. In the first step, they only get one call a week, which is less than $5.00. Their calls are limited to certain days, length of call, times, and number of calls, and WHO they can call is limited. Their first call to home is free. Plus the many times if the families WON’T pay for their calls, the counselors will bring them into their office for free calls. They go to school and to group therapy most of the day and have no time to chat with their friends or their families. They’re usually there for 60 days. They too are incarcerated for a reason.
This is just another demand for FREE STUFF. Tell me why I, the city, or the county, state or the company providing their phone service should have to pick up this tab for them.