Bill > H825

This bill aims to regulate the telephone service provided to inmates in all correctional and other penal institutions in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The key provisions include: 1) Requiring the cost of local and long-distance telephone service for inmates to be the same as the rates charged for comparable residential telephone service. 2) Requiring the Department of Correction and county houses of correction to negotiate contracts for local and long-distance telephone service on the basis of offering the lowest cost to users. 3) Prohibiting the Commonwealth, the Department of Correction, and the county houses of correction from accepting commissions, revenues, or receiving telephone services for their employees at below-market rate cost from the provider(s) of prisoner telephone service.

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https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H825