Opinion: Prison communication is getting more, not less, expensive By Jewu Richardson
Jewu Richardson in 2013.
I was in prison on my daughter’s 8th birthday. While it wasn’t the first of her birthdays I spent behind bars, it was the first for which I had no money to call her. I felt terrible. I didn’t know how to make it up to her. I didn’t want her to get used to my absence or to think this was normal. I had seen it happen over and over to the men around me: active and willing fathers who lost their babies because of the cost of a call.