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The bill makes it free for the 8,960 people in CT prisons and jails to call their loved ones. It now goes to Gov. Ned Lamont.

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. The Maine Monitor, formerly known as Pine Tree Watch, is a local journalism product published by The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, a nonprofit civic news orga...

A billboard on I-91 in West Haven over the summer calling on Gov. Ned Lamont to make phone calls free at correctional facilities across the state. The state Senate voted on Thursday to make it free for incarcerated people to call their loved ones from prison or jail. Sen. Martin Looney, President Pro Tem of the Senate and a New Haven Democrat, called the bill a “good investment of therapeutic policy” that would help reduce the feelings of alienation, detachment and isolation that so many people feel once they are released from incarceration. “I support this bill as a good investment in ...

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...