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moblyw wrote on January 27, 2008 11:57 AM: NEW PRISON PHONE RATES FOR POOR FAMILY MEMBERS!

WOW! THE PRICE WENT FROM $18.00 FOR A 16 MINUTE PHONE CALL TO $16.14 FOR A 16 MINUTE PHONE CALL. I WONDER WHY A LOT OF OTHER STATES HAVE QUIT THIS RIDICULOUS PHONE CALL RATE RIP OFF TO POOR FAMILY MEMBERS THAT CAN'T EVEN AFFORD A CAR, OR TO PUT FOOD ON THEIR TABLES NOW.

moblyw wrote on January 27, 2008 10:48 AM: JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW NEVADA PRISONS ARE A BUSINESS!



PRISONS ARE THE NUMBER TWO BUSINESS IN THE STATE. THE MAJORITY OF THE FOLKS IN PRISON ARE POOR. TAKE MONEY FROM THEIR KIDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS, THAT DON'T EVEN HAVE THE MONEY TO DRIVE TO THE PRISONS BECAUSE, BECAUSE THEIR FINANCIAL PROVIDERS ARE LOCKED AWAY IN THE SYSTEM. THE FAMILY MEMBERS ARE MOSTLY DIRT POOR VICTIMS ALSO. MOST OF THEM ONLY CAN AFFORD TO TALK TO THEIR LOVED ONES IN PRISON ONCE A MONTH, IF EVEN THAT MUCH. THERE ARE NOT MANY WEALTHY INDIVIDUALS IN THE NEVADA PRISON SYSTEM. THE FEW WEALTHY INDIVIDUALS IN NEVADA PRISONS USUALLY GET OUT ON PAROLE, BECAUSE THEY CAN AFFORD HIGH DOLLAR LAWYERS, OR THRU CONNECTIONS THEY GET PARDONED.

moblyw wrote on January 27, 2008 10:44 AM: JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW NEVADA PRISONS ARE A BUSINESS!

PRISONS ARE THE NUMBER TWO BUSINESS IN THE STATE. THE MAJORITY OF THE FOLKS IN PRISON ARE POOR. TAKE MONEY FROM THEIR KIDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS, THAT DON'T EVEN HAVE THE MONEY TO DRIVE TO THE PRISONS BECAUSE, BECAUSE THEIR FINANCIAL PROVIDERS ARE LOCKED AWAY IN THE SYSTEM. THE FAMILY MEMBERS ARE MOSTLY DIRT POOR VICTIMS ALSO. MOST OF THEM ONLY CAN AFFORD TO TALK TO THEIR LOVED ONES IN PRISON ONCE A MONTH, IF EVEN THAT MUCH. THERE ARE NOT MANY WEALTHY INDIVIDUALS IN THE NEVADA PRISON SYSTEM. THE FEW WEALTHY INDIVIDUALS IN NEVADA PRISONS USUALLY GET OUT ON PAROLE, BECAUSE THEY CAN AFFORD HIGH DOLLAR LAWYERS, OR THRU CONNECTIONS THEY GET PARDONED.

DJ2 wrote on January 26, 2008 11:23 PM: It would be interesting to see a specific break-down of how every dollar taken in (by this monopoly's price-gouging set-up) is divided up between the co-conspiring parties involved in the take.

And if you think those quotes sound unnecessarily exorbitant, they are dwarfed by the rates charged for collect calls out of the prison.

Heaven forbid you should accept one of those collect calls by mistake, thinking it could be someone you know in trouble. By the time you figure out that caller is not the "Harold" you mistook him for, you've been socked with an unbelievably large bill and no recourse but to pay.

Geneise Alterman wrote on January 26, 2008 02:32 PM: The inmate phone system does NOT have to be so expensive, even with this new system. Please check out Nebraska, the state that accepts no kickbacks, which seriously harms inmate families. That state believes it's immoral to make money off people who are already suffering. They believe in the importance of family support to the rehibilitation of inmates. The prison phone system is no more intricate than any other, and not more expensive to support. I don't mind Nevada making money off my unhappiness, but I don't believe that I should be penalized at a dollar a minute, plus a $5.00 connection fee, or $35.00 for 30 minutes. Nevada, make a little money, but don't make a "killing" off the person that I love. You are not punishing the inmate, you are hurtng the families and loved ones who are on fixed incomes and doing the best they can to survive. The love and support that I give my husband makes him a better inmate, a team-player, a good citizen of the future when he is able to come home. Shame on the system that feels they have to make such a huge amount off the unfortunat4es to support the prison budget. If Nevada can't support the Dept. of Corrections out of the regular state budget, without the exorbitant phone charges, it needs to be more reasonable with the parole practices. Let out the inmates who have served well behaved, and long terms, and make room for the new and dangerous felons. Thank you.

David wrote on January 26, 2008 12:13 PM: Be careful JohnFlipLockup and Herb,with those sentiments that criminals should be responsible for their own actions, Review-Journal reporter Alan Maimon may just do a hit-piece on the both of you for not sufficiently sympathizing with the criminal community.

This gives me an idea. Since the Review-jounal is now doing its "Profile in Courage" series, Alan Maimon can write a heart-wrenching profile about some meth-loving girlfriend, who knowingly dated, and let move into her home, a convicted child predator even though she had three small children in the house, and then her molester of a boyfriend sexually assaulted her young daughter and son, and now, sadly, she is separated from her true love, who just happens to write poetry and draw sketches, cause he's an artist you see, and if only education spending hadn't been cut, he would have become a professional educator, close to children, so he, being a touch-feely kind of teacher/artist/poet/pervert, could give back to the community.

Alan Maimon can write an article profiling how courageous this woman is, going to prison every week-end by bus, with her three children in tow, all from different fathers of course, to keep the family together, with them all getting State subsidized spending for their counseling because of the molestations, and Alan Maimon can paint a teary-eyed portrait of how, if only this molester, who himself was molested as a child, so he has an excuse, had job training, he'd have a job, and how he was getting his life together, and if he only had a real lawyer, not some public pretender, he would have gotten probation and be free.

A "Profile in Courage" of this kind is tailor made for Alan Maimon, whose evident thought is that it's all society's fault, not the criminal's.

Lindsey wrote on January 26, 2008 11:46 AM: Review-Journal reporter Alan Maimon must be so happy that criminals are being treated so softly. Now, these thugs can talk at length,at a reduced cost, about how it is not their fault they raped, assaulted, molested, or killed innocent victims. It's their lawyers' fault. That's it...they had the public defender maybe, or some inexperienced lawyer, it could never be the criminals fault.

CPS wrote on January 26, 2008 10:39 AM: THERE SHOULD NOT BE ANY PHONE CALLS FROM ANY ONE IN JAIL,THEY ARE THERE FOR DOING WRONG AND THE PEOPLE THAT THEY DID WRONG TO CAN SLEEP MUCH BETTER AT NIGHT KNOWING THAT THE LITTLE BAS.... CANT CALL THEM SAYING "IAM GOING TO GET YOU" SCUM BAGS

Herb wrote on January 26, 2008 10:26 AM: I would like to see the opposite, raise the price of phone calls even higher. In particular the wives and girlfriends of criminals should pay sky high phone rates. These criminal loving women are pure evil, if they didn't give their love and support to criminals the crime rate would fall down to near zero.

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