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Introduced in the House on January 22, 2007

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The pre paid phone cards sound fine.

allowed to make phone calls? to get drugs delivered?

Why would they need to do that when they can get drugs from many of the guards!

allowed to make phone calls??? you STILL didn't answer. remeber, they are IN JAIL. SHUT AWAY FROM SOCIETY. but no... the poor boo-boo's get to make phone calls to their mommies, and their bookies, and their fellow gang members, and their hookers, and their drug dealers. i'm sure the list goes on. are these calls even MONITORED? probably not, the inmates have more rights than the citizens.

To the person who wrote this: so, why are they [by Anonymous Citizen on March 31, 2007] allowed to make phone calls??? you STILL didn't answer. remeber, they are IN JAIL. SHUT AWAY FROM SOCIETY. but no... the poor boo-boo's get to make phone calls to their mommies, and their bookies, and their fellow gang members, and their hookers, and their drug dealers. i'm sure the list goes on. are these calls even MONITORED? probably not, the inmates have more rights than the citizens. Here is your answer! It is my son's right to make a phone call during the prescribed hours that calls are allowed. And yes, he makes them to me, his mother, and to his grandparents. YES, the calls are monitored, they are recorded. And NO, the inmates do not have more rights than people who are not incarcerated. I really hope that sanctimonious people such as you never ever encounter a problem with the law, especially in the state of Michigan. With your attititude, you'll go down in a heartbeat. You must have been one of the ones who cast the first stone, I would not even want to know what sins you have committed. You really should engage your brain before opening your mouth. On second thought, no, don't engage your brain, because obviously it doesn't work.

to be given a FREE place to live (at my expense). he has the RIGHT to place phone calls for FREE (at my expense). he has the RIGHT to EAT FOR FREE (at my expense). he has the RIGHT to be CLOTHED FOR FREE (at my expense). he has the RIGHT TO WATCH CABLE TELEVISION FOR FREE (at my expense). he has all those rights. i don't even want to know what your kid DID to EARN those years in jail. i don't CARE. calling home to mommy is not a luxury that i want to keep paying for. i don't even think that it's a luxury that should EVEN BE AVAILABLE to inmates. maybe THAT'S WHY THE COSTS OF KEEPING A PRISONER IS SO HIGH. i'm paying their phone bill, their cable bill, their heating bill, their light bill, their medical bills, and probably for their drugs and hookers too. boy are THEY going to be disappointed when granholm lets them out to 'fend for themselves'.

A prisoner has to submit a phone list of who they are going to call COLLECT. They can only add people every six months. When they call it is the person to whom they are making the call to that pays for the phone call. For jails: Inmate Calling Solutions and for prisons: Correctional Billing Services. So...you DO NOT pay for their telephone calls and all telephone calls are recorded.

that if you have a 'loved one' in prison, ALL your phone calls are monitored and recorded. it's part of the 'package'. i'll bet if you knew that going in, you would have been a lot less happy about your loved one putting you on that list. that's why they put you on the list, so they can get the wiretap order for your phone number.

I have nothing to hide, so they can listen to my phone calls anytime.

private? is nothing you have none of the government's business? are you OWNED by the government? i take it you voted for jennie the last two times, right?

It doesn't bother me if someone listens to my conversation because I have nothing to hide, so I'm not even going to worry about it. When I get the collect call from my loved one, we both know we are being recorded, and they can have a laugh when he talks to our kitty if they want.

that the recording ends when the inmate hangs up. if they have an order to tap your phone, they have an order to tap your phone ALL THE TIME. even when it is ON THE HOOK. so your home conversations can be 'monitored' twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. and while they are at it, so can your work calls. and did i mention that cell phone calls can be digitally recorded constantly based on your carrier code? it's how they 'get the goods' on drug dealers. even they have gone 'low tech' to avoid this. good luck. still feel 'all warm and fuzzy' about this???

It doesn't bother me. I'm not a drug dealer and neither is he. They can monitor my work calls, only parents call me and I lead a boring life. So if you are trying to scare me, it's not working.

thoroughly indoctrinated, aren't you? i guess you didn't think you NEEDED any privacy, did you? the POINT of all of this is to let you know that your loved one has given the authorities a REASON to invade your privacy. most CITIZENS are upset about that. but then again, most CITIZENS are upset about a loved one screwing up badly enough to be sent to prison. you don't seem too terribly concerned about either. how about HIM screwing up badly enough to send YOU to prison? let's hope he doesn't plot an ESCAPE anytime soon, that would make you (as a person on his 'outside contact list') an accessory. let's hope he doesn't get caught with any drugs in his cell, that would make you (as a person on his 'outside contact list') a drug dealer. let's hope no harm befalls any of the witnesses to his crime, that wold make you (as a person on his 'outside contact list') a suspect in that crime. i'm sure you'll thank him later.

Nope, still can't convince me. He's not any of that, so I'm (to tell you yet again) not worried.

good luck with that 'not worried' thing. you good little democrat you. myself personally, i'm worried enough for both of you. i worked in law enforcement before and i see how people in this state abuse other's rights. i have NO trust in the people who do this kind of stuff whatsoever. i don't know why you do. i guess you don't ever think that they would do it to you.

and I still don't have anything to worry about, I have nothing to hide. Do I think its right that they can listen to any conversation? No, but that's the price my husband and I pay in our phone calls because he chose to take the route that got him sent to prison. We know that our conversations are monitored and we deal with it. Again, nothing to hide.

and nothing that is PERSONAL either. nothing that is none of the state's business. nothing that is PRIVATE. nothing that is not between you, the person you are talking to, and the state of michigan. nothing that YOU know about you that THEY don't know about you. it's not what you hide, it's what you don't show the public. some things they don't NEED to know. but in your case, they do.