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RedSunCinema · 2025-01-30T20:14:59+00:00

As far as I know, there's no prison anywhere in the world that would willingly allow inmates to have cell phones in their cells to accept or receive unlimited phone calls. That's just a recipe for disaster that can't be logistically monitored properly. That being said, there are instances where inmates have illegally smuggled cell phones into prisons and use them to make phone calls and post videos but that is illegal and comes with severe punishment.

sleepyooh90 · 2025-01-30T21:07:12+00:00

In Sweden, the person you want to call has to submit usually a invoice proving it's actually their number, and it can take days or weeks to be approved. It's for parents, kids, close family and not every inmate is allowed either. Calls are sometimes monitored and always recorded. Key words said can have the call terminated and or reviewed. You need to buy a phone card with charges on it, 1 hour is like 10$.

It's a huge frustration from the perspective of the inmate.

I did 40 days in prison, took me three weeks to be able to call my dad. Some had waited 8 weeks with no approval, some people got rejected, some lost their permit because other people was heard in the background on a call. It's monitored quite well and if there is a risk of crime you don't get approved.

notthegoatseguy · 2025-01-30T18:40:13+00:00

Halden does not have phones in their cells, the famous Norway prison that was featured in a documentary.

mrclean2323 · 2025-01-30T18:49:35+00:00

Honestly when you look at the Scandinavian prisons you need to recognize that the culture is simply different than the US.

falcopilot · 2025-01-30T19:29:43+00:00

Phones in incarceration facilities is something I know about.

Inmate phones are a profit center, all calls made from a facility are collect, at the maximum per-minute and per-connection rate and minimum call duration time they can get away with.

Source- I used to do inmate management software, spent a lot of time interacting with phone vendors.

okcboomer87 · 2025-01-30T19:56:27+00:00

For one thing. Prison is a punishment. And being able to easily communicate back to your gang would not be beneficial to anybody. Not sure where you are going with this but it seems like a bad idea.

fptackle · 2025-01-30T20:15:19+00:00

In the USA, in my state, there are sort of.

We have what are called "residential correctional facilities" that share many similarities to the Scandinavian system. For example, they have a psychologist on staff to meet with the offenders. The offenders get jobs in the community. They're allowed furloughs to go see family or go to treatment or school. We've had these buildings since the early 1980s. Other states have similar programs.

Some of the offenders there are on probation and there as a condition of probation, in an attempt to get them to change under more supervision before they end up going to probation. Others there are coming from prison and still "inmate status", meaning if they mess up, they can be declassified to a more secure prison. So, the building is essentially a half prison, or halfway house, whatever you want to call it. So, not all prisoners get it. Not even close. But, if they're in these residential correctional facilities, they do have access to it.

But as far as your specific question regarding phones - These facilities do have phones that take incoming calls, though not to their room. The phones are in a common area, and everything is recorded and can be monitored. They also have a voicemail box there for messages.

texasusa · 2025-01-30T20:18:55+00:00

USA prisons seem incapable of keeping drugs and cell phones out of prison.

GolfExpensive7048 · 2025-01-30T23:28:39+00:00

Sure you can ring up from a jail cell.

Just put your head down and ring up.

ELBillz · 2025-01-30T18:52:00+00:00

2 years ago in California most inmates were given tablets that allow audio calls from their cells as well as video calls from an fixed location. They can also send text like messages.

RobertOdenskyrka · 2025-01-30T18:56:59+00:00

No, that would make it much too easy for them to continue committing crimes from prison. Even if you listen in on every call they could use codes to hide what they're actually saying.

I knew a guy who spent some time in a Swedish prison. He had access to computers, but they were not connected to the internet. They've got books, newspapers, TV, etc, but no communication outside of visits.

DeFiClark · 2025-01-30T18:58:42+00:00

With enough money in much of the world you can have as many phones as you want in prison.

PetersMapProject · 2025-01-30T19:05:00+00:00

Some prisons in the UK have phones in the cell - but they can only be used to contact pre-approved phone numbers, and the calls can be monitored

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/in-cell-phones-for-more-prisons-in-drive-to-cut-crime

Aggressive-Union1714 · 2025-01-30T19:15:26+00:00

Sounds like a question for google

oppernaR · 2025-01-30T21:30:00+00:00

Be careful with your reasoning, you're on an entire journey before you even get to asking an irrelevant question.

I bet

So you're making an assumption and believe strongly in it, but have nothing to base it on.

How true is that?

Not at all.

Where else

No. Not "where else" because there are none to begin with, as others have explained.

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Thursday, January 30, 2025

Are there any prisons anywhere in the United States, and/or the world, that have phones in every cell that are capable of receiving inbound calls as well as making outbound?

Are there any prisons anywhere in the United States, and/or the world, that have phones in every cell that are capable of receiving inbound calls as well as making outbound?

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