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APRIL 3, 2001 The US Bureau of Prisons on Monday instituted a policy limiting prisoners' phone calls to 300 minutes per month. Previous policy allowed inmates to make unlimited calls, based on money they earned in the prison system or money sent by others. Prisoners were also allowed 120 minutes of collect phone calls. The policy applies to all calls, regardless of who pays. Phone calls to legal defense or advisers are exempt, however. The BOP says the policy is designed to curtail illegal activities and that the average prisoner makes far less than 300 minutes of calls, anyway. About 140,000 inmates will be affected. Leonard Peltier supporters in recent weeks have been asking others to call in protest of the policy. Peltier is serving two life sentences in Leavenworth federal prison in Kansas for the murders of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Get the Story:
U.S. Restricts Phone Calls by Federal Inmates (The Washington Post 4/3) Relevant Links:
Free Leonard Peltier - http://www.freepeltier.org
The Bureau of Prisons - http://www.bop.gov
Prisoners' phone calls restricted
Facebook TwitterAPRIL 3, 2001 The US Bureau of Prisons on Monday instituted a policy limiting prisoners' phone calls to 300 minutes per month. Previous policy allowed inmates to make unlimited calls, based on money they earned in the prison system or money sent by others. Prisoners were also allowed 120 minutes of collect phone calls. The policy applies to all calls, regardless of who pays. Phone calls to legal defense or advisers are exempt, however. The BOP says the policy is designed to curtail illegal activities and that the average prisoner makes far less than 300 minutes of calls, anyway. About 140,000 inmates will be affected. Leonard Peltier supporters in recent weeks have been asking others to call in protest of the policy. Peltier is serving two life sentences in Leavenworth federal prison in Kansas for the murders of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Get the Story:
U.S. Restricts Phone Calls by Federal Inmates (The Washington Post 4/3) Relevant Links:
Free Leonard Peltier - http://www.freepeltier.org
The Bureau of Prisons - http://www.bop.gov
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