Not "cellphones"! Some private prisons have a payphone fitted in each cell. This obviously liberates us from the dreaded phone queue and unchains families and friends from sitting by their landlines all evening.
This also neatly avoids the main problem with prison payphones, which is the inflated costs of calls. In-cell phones reveal a failure of imagination for, liberated from the constraints of a limited number of phones, why don't they allow families to phone in to the prisoner?
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My name is Prem Singh and I have Known Ben Gunn for several years and I spent sometime with him. I would lend my total support to secure release for Ben. He is a reformed person. He has grown from boy-to-man within a very brutal system. Just to survive for 3 decades in the unforgiving environment of jail is a tremendous achievement let alone develope and maintain intellectual abilities. I only hope that Ben remembers me after nearly two 20 years. Stay with it Ben, the day will come.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the above comment Prem, how good to hear from someone who has spent time with Ben on the inside and can tell it like it is. You have just comfirmed the opinions I already held re Ben and perhaps you will make some others reflect on things they have said about Ben having not even met him. God bless you.
ReplyDeleteVery trusting that guy could be anyone.
ReplyDeleteI guess the reason they have in-cell phones, makes it easier to monitor in-mates calls, rather than any type of favor to the inmate. I strongly susspect that the calls are the same extortionate rate as any prison phone, and they don't benefit from the free calls the rest of us get after a certain time in the evening.
ReplyDelete"Very trusting that guy could be anyone"
ReplyDeleteI believe him.
@supersaint:
ReplyDeleteI'd rather err on the side of trusting him; after all what's to be lost if I'm wrong? I'd already formed by own opinions. And if, as I believe, he is genuine, I want to acknowledge what he said. When you trust people are telling the truth there's always a chance you'll be mistaken, but I don't want to go through life mistrusting everything everyone says.
Saw Ben today and yes, he does remember Prem Singh well. Said he was a nice guy and would like to hear form him again.
ReplyDeleteThanks.It would be nice to see Ben again. But how can that be made possible? Please let me know.
ReplyDeleteprem
Prem, send a private message to the e-mail address: bengunn12612@gmail.com and we can make arrangements.
ReplyDeleteThanks.prem
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