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Recording
Will Identify Calls Made From
Prisons
A problem for police
and jail authorities has been
the number of calls made by
prisoners from public pay
telephones installed at the
prisons to outsiders who have
been threatened and blackmailed.
The situation has gotten so far
out of hand that prisoners,
working with those on the
outside, were making a good
living. And getting away with
it.
Basically, a prisoner would use
any one of the public telephones
installed in the prison to make
calls to extort and/or threaten
their potential victims. The
person on the outside would pick
up the payment or follow through
with the threat.
The problem was such that police
have received more calls of
complaints that they can handle,
leaving judicial officials
scratching their heads at a
solution.
Well, Patricia Vega, Ministra de
Justicia y Gracia, who operates
the penitentiary system and
working with the Instituto
Costarricense de Electricidad
(ICE), announced that now a
recording will precede every
phone call placed from a pay
phone in the prisons
The system allows that when you
pick up the receiver, if the
caller is calling from a prison,
a message is played telling you
the call is originating from a
prison and identifying the
prison as well.
This change will not stop the
criminals from making their
calls, but it can help the
receiver of the call by letting
them know that they are
potential victim and make a
complaint to police.
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