An annual report from watchdog group Court Watch NOLA, released Monday, brought to light a program that stores all recorded phone calls, including some
Telephone calls were a lifeline for Hartford resident Diane Lewis when her son was incarcerated. “I made these phone calls priority over everything, before
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.
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