Americans Don't Care About Prison Phone Exploitation, Says FCC Official

Re:Americans Don't Care About Prison Phone Exploitation, Say... by Fjolsvith on Sunday August 07, 2016 @10:15PM (#12245066)

It did for me. My second conviction sent me down for 7.5 years and it was only about 5 years into that bit that I said, "okay, I quit. I'll be good now."

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Re:Americans Don't Care About Prison Phone Exploitation, Say... by nitrogen on Sunday August 07, 2016 @11:09PM (#12245248)

If you don't mind my asking, do you think there could have been a faster way, or was that probably the only way to reach you?

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Re:Americans Don't Care About Prison Phone Exploitation, Say... by Fjolsvith on Monday August 08, 2016 @01:10PM (#12249268)

I believe it is subjective to the individual. If a person doesn't have any ties (relatives or friends on the outside) they might never get to that point. What was key for me was that before I went first went down, I was a hobbyist programmer and had an independent, many-years long MMO game project under way. Being in prison chafed at me horrible because every day I felt like nothing was being accomplished towards it! I knew I was loosing time from completing that goal.

Its funny how the goal that I wanted to work towards changed from that game to a successful life.

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