Phone Justice
La Ron Mckinley Bey
42642
WSPF PO Box 9900
Bescobel, Wisconsin 53805
June 11th 2012
To whom this concerns:
I am a prisoner who is presently housed in a supermax. I have been here for 12 and a half years and incarcernated for more than two decades - total.
Due to the high cost of collect phone calls from prison, I have been unable to phone any of my family for nearly 10 years. The prison in which I am located is in a remote rural area more than 350 miles roundtrip distance from my family, and they are unable to travel that distance as it is too costly. Moreever, the visits, if they were to come, would be via closed circuit video.
The grossly excessive cost of phone calls has played a large(not same word written i cant grasp it) role in the deterioration and outright destruction of the bonds of affection between my family and I throughout the years. I have a daughter who is 37 years old, whose voice I have never heard( nor have I seen her) as a woman. I have many neices and nephews, now in their 20s, who would not recognise the sound of my voice simply because I, nor family, have been able to afford the grossly exorbitant prices that prisoners and their families must pay the phone service rackets for collect calling. There needs to be some type of regulation of these exploitative prices. Thank you
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