Row over phone call costs in UK jails

UK consumer groups have lodged an official complaint over the high charges prisoners are paying to make phone calls, reports Ananova.

"The "super complaint" to regulator Ofcom says a 30-minute phone call from a prison to a landline costs more than seven times the amount of a call from a public payphone.

Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: "Prisoners staying in touch with their families is known to reduce the risk, both of reoffending on release and of suicide and self-harm in prison, so it is in everyone's interest to enable people to phone home."

emily | 7:51 AM | Inmates and Cell Phones |
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