Prisons and profits: legalized extortion of inmates and families

Want to call? Email? Visit by video? It will cost you, big time

A 2014 survey by a coalition of organizations found that 1 in 3 families with incarcerated members go into debt to pay the costs of staying connected through calls and visits to jails and prisons. (Specifically, the most frequently cited barriers are the cost of phone calls [69%], travel…