Are Unlimites Prison Phone Plans Real or a Scam?

No, and any company claiming to offer unlimited calls to a correctional facility is taking your money without delivering what they are promising. This is one of the most common scams targeting families of inmates, and it is worth understanding why it cannot exist.

Bradford County Correctional in Troy, Pennsylvania, uses GlobalTel*Link as its exclusive phone carrier. GTL holds the contract at that facility, which means every single call your inmate makes runs through GTL and GTL only. No outside company can process or facilitate those calls. There is no legal or technical pathway for a third party to offer unlimited calling because they do not have access to the facility's phone infrastructure. The only entity that can deliver a call from Bradford County is GTL itself.

What legitimate services like InmateAid can do is reduce what GTL charges for each call by identifying the phone number that triggers the lowest available rate within the GTL system. That is a real and meaningful savings. In most GTL cases InmateAid saves about $3.00 per call. But nobody can make the calls unlimited because that pricing decision belongs entirely to GTL and the facility contract.

The legitimate GTL platform for Bradford County is connectnetwork.com. They have a rate calculator on the site where you can look up what calls to your specific number currently cost. If you want InmateAid to run that analysis before you spend anything, email aid@inmateaid.com with your phone number and the facility name. The team will check the rates and tell you honestly whether a discount number would save you money. No charge for the estimate and no obligation to sign up.

If a company is promising unlimited calls, walk away.