rob the children of prison inmates who want to talk to their daddys...

"One way to cut down on the number of inmates who end up right back in prison shortly after being released is to make sure that they preserve their ties with their families, especially with spouses and children, while they are serving time. But keeping in touch is often impossible for inmates and their families because of state prison systems that earn huge profits from inmates' phone calls by forcing the family members who receive those collect calls to pay usurious rates. As a result, a family must often choose between talking to a loved one in prison and putting food on the table."

The entire story is here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/14/opinion/14sat3.html?th&emc=th

This is a fact of life for many prison inmates and their families. Is denying access to friends and family a part of the criminalization process? Remember that the vast majority of inmates are incarcerated because of non-violent drug offenses... a crime that many of the readers of this bulletin are guilty of.

That is a bloody disgrace... an absolute rip off... these bastards who are
supposed to be providing imprisonment as punishment have moved into
providing imprisonment with punishment..... There must be a freedom of speed
issue alive here..... think about the kids, the right to continue to have access to
dad is a child's right, not dad's right..... come on, get angry about this .... it is a
completely s*** situation that deserves the condemnation of all right thinking
people.....