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The case for making prison phone calls free: new data, real results

The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News [Unofficial] May 26, 2026
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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For decades, a phone call home from prison could cost a family several dollars a minute. That wasn’t an oversight. It was the business model. A growing number of state prison systems and county jails have moved to make calls free, arguing that regular contact with family is one […] The post The case for making prison phone calls free: new data, real results first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.

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