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		netcan on May 11, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Prison phones are a predatory monopoly – One famil... Of all the ways of limiting phone use, is this a good method. Why not just limit duration?

Retra on May 11, 2016 [–]

If you're going to permit phone calls at all, you need to allow enough duration to enable the reasons for allowing phone calls, and that's plenty enough time to orchestrate criminal activity.

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