The move would make Massachusetts the third state to provide free phone calls in state prisons, according to the Boston Globe.
As part of her new budget plan, Healey is pushing a proposal where phone calls from state prisons would be free with a 1,000-minute cap every month per person; county jails and prisons, which hold more than half of the incarcerated population, would not be eligibleGov. Maura Healey is pushing a limited plan to make phone calls from Massachusetts state prisons free of charge.according to the Boston Globe.
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