Who Can I Say is Calling?

U.S. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Bromwich says that federal prisoners are using prison telephones to commit crimes, and the problem continues despite the fact that the Bureau of Prisons has known about it for over 20 years. “We found various cases in which inmates retained full telephone privileges even after they were convicted of a crime involving the use of prison telephones,” Bromwich said. In one case, a drug dealer used a prison phone to order the murders of two grand jury witnesses against him. One was killed and the other was shot, but lived. Even after being convicted for that crime, he still had full telephone privileges and his calls were not monitored, Bromwich said. (AP) ...Yet your complaint calls to the phone company are “monitored for quality assurance.”