Curious Alaska: What happens to the money Alaskans pay for phone calls with people in jail or prison?
Curious Alaska: Where does the money that DOC makes off inmate phone calls go? In Alaska, the majority of money that families spend on phone calls with incarcerated people goes right back to paying for the imprisonment itself: for inmate towels, food, bedding and drug testing. The rest enriches a private equity-owned corporation called Securus Technologies Ltd. It works like this: All phone calls from any Alaska jail or prison have to be made through Texas-based Securus. For at least 30 years, Securus — or its precursor company Evercom — has been Alaska’s prison phone service contract...
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