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As families struggle to afford phone calls from jail, Maine counties rake in millions

She set dinner on the table before sharing the bad news with her 10-year-old son Wyatt. On and off throughout Wyatt’s life, his father has been incarcerated at the Kennebec County Correctional Facility in Augusta. Most weeks his mom, Courtney Allen, scraped together $50 to pay for a few 15-minute phone calls from the jail. That week she didn’t have the money.  This story was originally published by The Maine Monitor. The Maine Monitor, formerly known as Pine Tree Watch, is a local journal...
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