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The pandemic isolated incarcerated people. Kentucky and Securus cashed in. The Department of Corrections made at least $3.2 million last year off of incarcerated people’s phone calls, financial records obtained by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting have revealed.
by Jared Bennett |
July 14, 2021
For over 460 days, as the pandemic shut down visitation across the state, incarcerated people and their loved ones relied on the prison system’s costly phone calls and emails.
The Kentucky Department of Corrections and Securus Technologies reaped big rewards.
Records show the Department of Corrections made at least $3.2 million last year off phone calls that cost the loved ones of incarcerated people up to 25 cents per minute.
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