Kings County Jail

Telephones

Interview with Ron and Tiffany


JM: Did you have regular access to telephones?
Ron: no!! not allways seems like just when we would get a good program going the cops would take our phones from us, this happened alot around the holidays,to raise up the stress to get us to fightwith each other so they could lock us back down & get hazerd pay.
Tiffany: There was a phone on the wall when they were booking me, it looked like it was only to use for bail bonds services. In my POD, you have up to four hours in the day room, outside of your POD. There is two pay phones there and they call collect to callers, they must be local. This is the 20th century and most people don't have home phones. Cell phones don't accept collect calls.

JM: What types of charges applied for calling people?
Ron: something like one doller fifty cents for the first minute, firteen cents for every minute after that, really high . most of these phone companies if not all of them are owned by law inforcement agencies throughout the united states..

JM: Did you need to buy phone cards to call out?
Ron: i was never down or at a place that alowed that type of phone call systems.

JM: Did the jail screen your calls?
Ron: yes if you got a new tattoo, & bragged about it over the jail phone lines soon you could expect to get a visit from S&E security & extractionto check out your new tattoo,s 7 give you a write up..