There are many reasons why someone may be in jail.
The extremely high cost of collect calls either puts you in big debt or
worse, prevents you from hearing from your loved ones
Having a loved one in jail is not easy. The high cost of collect calls is putting you in debt... or limiting your calls and talk time.
More and more phone companies are not accepting or allowing collect calls. Those that do, charge extremely high connection and per minute rates.
Jail Call provides you with a phone number, local to your loved one. They simply call a local number to reach you.
No collect calls, no per minute charges.
With Jail Call, there are no connection fees and no per minute rates. You simply pay a flat rate per month for unlimited talk*.
* Caller may be required to pay a local call charge.
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The United States prison system holds more than 2.3 million people across their more than 1700 prisons*.
*source: Wikipedia
There are over 40 thousands adults held in more than 200 Canadian federal and provincial prisons*.
*source: Wikipedia
The average rate for a collect call from US prisons is $0.22 /minute*. Some 3rd party collect call services charge more.
*source: PrisonPolicy.org