[kingu]

Does the local call include recording, detection equipment to tell if a third party has been included in the call, and a voice over that warns that this call is from a prison and recorded? Does the phone company have to deal with continual subpoenas that result from these calls?

Rates seem rather reasonable considering all that goes on and the associated costs to cater to criminals using the phone system.

[davius]

'Does the local call include recording, detection equipment to tell if a third party has been included in the call, and a voice over that warns that this call is from a prison and recorded? Does the phone company have to deal with continual subpoenas that result from these calls?'

Bingo! Also armored phones and cables, together with an entire culture that struggles mightily to avoid paying utility bills under any circumstances.

[kiryandil]

Rates seem rather reasonable considering all that goes on and the associated costs to cater to criminals using the phone system.

I don't know about you, but around here, the taxpayers have to pay some of the criminals 6-figure salaries, their phone bills, and outrageous pensions.

They're called state & national gruberment elected politicians...