Help with the NC prison telephone system.

[Budwoman]

What can be done about Evercom and it's Prison Billing System? My son is in a local prison from my home. It is not Long Distance to the Prison. He has to call home Collect at $3.00 for 10 minutes. We are also having a problem with being able to receive collect calls because of the way the Company has us set up in their system. This has nothing to do with Non Payment of bills. They cannot seem to get things set up properly.

[sherri13]

I'm in NC too, dealing with that same phone system. There are prison reform groups advocating for change in the telephone system -one of those groups is NC-CURE, of which I am the coordinator/chairperson. We will be having our February meeting on Saturday 2-16 in Greensboro at 1:30 pm and would love for you to attend. If you go to www.curenational.org you can read about the organization and its goals and prison reform efforts. There is specific information about proposed legislative changes re: prison telephone systems. If you would like to come to the meeting this Saturday, email me and i will send you directions, etc..

Good luck

ps- about having difficulty receiving calls, you can call evercom directly and they can help you set up your line so you can receive calls