The Associated Press via The Detroit Free Press
JACKSON — The cost of telephone calls from Michigan’s prisons will increase from 10 and 12 cents per minute to 18 to 20 cents per minute under a contract with a new company, the state said.
The contract with Alabama-based Public Commutations Services will allow the prisons to maintain a relatively inexpensive phone system while paying for technology upgrades and better security, said John Cordell, a spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections.
“This rate is still very good,” Cordell told the Jackson Citizen Patriot for a story published Sunday. “We understand there is a great cost burden for families.”
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