Listen Now: Losing your paycheck to collect call fees?
Last night, I hosted a dynamic show about the high cost of collect calls from prison and the burden they impose on families. Sherry Murray and Edna Ford not only talked about the affect that the high cost has had on them personally, but the affect it’s had on their pockets. Kiana Booker, Ford’s granddaughter, also joined us to talk openly and candidly about the complicated task of sustaining a relationship with the father who murdered her mother.
You can also see how much money people spent receiving these collect calls and what they sacrificed in the results of our survey here.
[...] to 15 years under the Rockefeller Drug Laws, to a grandmother who was paying hundreds of dollars in collect call fees. As someone who has also had both family members and friends behind bars, their stories not only [...]