All Posts by PrisonCallDeals Team

Help us serve you better
We’ve been around for a bit more than two months now, and hopefully we helped a lot of you make better decisions when choosing prison phone provider. We also received a lot of great feedback. Thank you all!   (Photo credit: http://resurector158.deviantart.com/art/ideal-idea-wallp ...
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Prison paws
Today is the national Work like a dog day! So in honor of this day, we decided to start a discussion about the fantastic programs for inmates working with dogs.   For example, at the Montana Women's prison, inmates have an opportunity to train adoptable dogs from local animal rescues ...
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Financial advice in prison?
Would you ever think of going to prison to get financial advice? Most people would say no! But after reading an interesting article in the Financial Buzz, we have to say we just might do that.   The article highlights an inmate - Curtis Carroll - in San Quentin State Prison, who has becom ...
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Inmate parents and their children
It's Sunday today - a day that usually children spend with their parents, playing, laughing and enjoying the family get-together. Unfortunately, for many children, Sunday can be a sad day - if they have parents who are in prison. The same goes for parents who are in prison. Talking on the phon ...
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How much is your phone bill?
We were just reading an article in the LA Times, about the ridiculously high costs of prison phone bills. The journalist mentions one example out of a million, writing about a dad who spends 400$ a month to stay in touch with his son in prison.  That is outrageous! Photo courtesy: http://azju ...
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Please help families stay in touch with loved ones in prison
If you liked our post yesterday about the silent victims of high prison phone charges, and are interested in reading more about this very important issue, here is an opinion piece from the San Francisco Bay Guardian:  Reducing phone charges  helps inmates connect with families. The article give ...
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Does publicity help inmates get fair treatment for communication?
On June 26, 2014 the New York Times published a great article about the incredibly high and unjust prison phone and money transfer rates for inmates.   As we know, several companies have monopoly over the prison phone market, and charge outrageous rates for inmates to keep in touch. These lic ...
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Keeping in touch with an inmate is so difficult and limited.
We’ve been keeping in touch with friends in different prisons around the country and most of them have a 15 minute limit for calls - and the time just flies. It seems that much can be said in 15 minutes, but actually it’s just not enough for a good conversation, especially since it’s not every ...
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How many phone calls do prisoners get?
If you’ve seen enough movies, you surely know that every prisoner gets their ONE phone call. But is that how it works in reality? Not really, because that ONE phone call is actually the FIRST phone call to find immediate help for one’s situation. But during the inmate’s time in any type of pri ...
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Phone calls are so expensive! We’ve been breaking the piggy bank staying in touch with our friends in prison!
We’ve been talking a lot with many friends we have, in prisons all around the country - and wow! It costs so much money, just to talk for a few minutes. Through creating this site, and through our experience of connecting with inmate families, we understood that the best way to save on prison phon ...
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