No more call forwarding!

[PhillyCheese]

I made these comments in another post, but I think it's so important that it deserves it's own thread.

As of April 25th, 2012, the PA Dept of Corrections has issued new guidelines on the Automated Inmate Phone System.

Those rules include:

"An inmate is prohibited from initiating calls to the following:
three-way calling, call forwarding, and calls through a call forwarding service using a local phone number"

They are starting to match the location of the person being called (you) with the local number the inmate is dialing, and if they don't match up, the call won't go through. Either the inmate calls you collect on a land line, or you send them money so they can buy pre paid minutes at the commissary.
So no more Vonage, Skype, etc.

Please go to truth-out on the web and look up an article from May 24th about how the state and phone companies are working together to rip off inmates and their families with these high phone charges.

There are some states, like New York, that have cleaned up this mess and have lowered the rates. But that's an uphill battle in PA.
We have to start making some noise!