You still should inspect 'em prior to use.
And, yeah... I'm sure the phone company is right pissed. It's a good idea. Contact with friends and family during incarceration is one of the largest reductions of recidivism. It has been shown in study after study after study.
Yeah, we make sure it's good to go. None of us want to be squashed.
I would think contact with friends would lead to recidivism. Just cause most the time the friends are part of the bad influence that leads one down the road to lock up.
There are surely outliers, but that doesn't mean that contact with friends and family doesn't reduce recidivism. It actually reduces it quite a bit.
That surprises me, cause everybody I know who been locked up go right back into their old habits when they reconnect with their friends
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