Ya’ll I am steaming. These corporations get away with posing as humanitarian services when they are directly complicit in mass incarceration
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Replying to @brownblaze
To start, they charge an astronomical amount to people who make, at best, pennies an hour and their families for these calls.
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Companies like Securus often require exclusive contracts with jails for their services, eliminating any and all competition.
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Replying to @brownblaze
Which, in the past few years, since the induction of video calls, now includes family visitation.
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So, under the guise of “security”, prisons sign contracts with these companies and outlaw actual visitation.
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Ensuring that contact with folks’ family ONLY occurs through these companies with legal monopolies that charge whatever the hell they want.
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Read this article. Pay attention to how they frame this as an alternative while removing all other options.http://www.ellsworthamerican.com/maine-news/jail-install-video-phones/ …
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Replying to @brownblaze
Everything about this is bullshit. From the flip flopping classism to the removal of actual choice to the $18 dollars an hr price...pic.twitter.com/kk1WeHqm8t
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This also speaks to insidious nature of incarceration: family members accused of no crime pay high cost for those convicted.
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Replying to @aurabogado
yep. Did you see the Ella baker center's report on the impact incarceration has on families?
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Yes.... sigh. @brownblaze
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