Providing monitored phone calls for Inmates

By Mark Ableton


Various service organizations are nowadays providing services whereby inmates of jails or other such institutions can make calls easily to their family and don't need to waste much of their money by following the usual calls with collect payment from jail. These phone calls services are specially formulated to suit inmates as it has features such as monitoring of the calls and recording so that they can place the required restrictions on them. Since individual jails have different rules and regulations, the inmates and their families must try to know more about the particular system and go in for a suitable method of communication.

To make inmate phone calls more easily, the prisoner can ask around and even make observations about the phone calling set up or just make direct inquiries. The family can talk directly to the prison services contact. With the help of the phone book they can locate the prison number and call. This can also be done via the internet. Usually the facilities offered would be inmate phone calls through cards, a standard phone system card, or a collect calling for both local and international phones.

Inmate Calling Solutions is a service organization that enables easy inmate calls for those incarcerated in correctional institutions so that they can remain in touch with their near ones. The call processing system consists of The Enforcer which takes care of a silent means of monitoring the call. It provides an integrated system of recording the call digitally. For security reasons, other features such as data collection are also provided. The inmates can access it from remote areas as it has good networking capability. Additionally, features such as proprietary validation are incorporated so that fraud activities can be controlled.

The bills are prepared by LEC which is spread all through the country and the payment can be done at the point of purchase of the service. They also provide excellent customer care service. Administrative interface is provided over the net and the authorities can easily track the inmates through their biometric identity which is a PIN number. The service is provided in an integrated fashion with the partnership of jail Management and the Commissary Systems from outside.

ICS also provides services for visitation through videos, email services to the inmates, payment processing. In addition they give the jail management some services for better management. Prisoners can take advantage of this facility to contact their families easily.




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