Kings County Jail

Telephones

Interview with Ron


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.

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..