the most depressing thing I have heard all week

[jen_chan13]

"The high cost of maintaining contact with inmates puts more than one in three families with incarcerated members into debt to pay for phone calls and visits alone, according to the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.

Recently, the Federal Trade Commission began investigating price gouging by telecommunications providers that service correctional facilities."

-- from "The Statistically Predictable and Wholly Tragic Story of Aquil Bickerstaff"
-- link: https://nextcity.org/features/view/life-on-a-million-dollar-block-north-philadelphia