Prison Phone Calls
Keeping in contact with a person in prison – Making Phone Calls
- It is not possible to make a call directly to a prisoner
- If an urgent message needs to be got to a prisoner, the prison Chaplain can sometimes be of help
- Pin phones are used in all prisons and paid for from a prisoner’s private cash
- Different prisons will put different limits on how many and long calls can be
- Many prisons operate incentive schemes for prisoners to earn extra calls
- Limits may be set on who a prisoner can call. This is dependent on the category of the prison and the category of the prisoner. For high security prisons or prisoners, the call may be monitored. If monitored, both sides of the conversation may be recorded.
Telephone conversations with a prisoner must not:
- Discuss escape plans
- Reduce prison security
- Affect national security
- Help commit a criminal offense
- Help to break prison rules
- Contain threats
- Contain blackmail
- Be racially offensive
- Be obscene
If the rules are broken, calls may be monitored and recorded or stopped altogether.
AFFECT hope that this information aids you in planning a visit with your loved one. If we can help further, please contact us.
