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| April 23, 2026

FCC Prison Phone Rate Caps 2026: What Changed and What It Means for Your Family

Published on April 23, 2026, by InmateAid Table of Contents Introduction What the FCC Does and Why It Matters The Rollercoaster: 2024 to 2026 The New Rate Caps — Effective April 6, 2026 Does This Affect Your Facility? What Has Not Changed What You Can Do Right Now What to...

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| October 08, 2012

Prison Life, Not Black or White

Carl Toers Bijns,Yahoo! Contributor Network Mar 4, 2011 Working inside the southwest prisons of New Mexico and Arizona has exposed me to types of customs that are easily misunderstood, misused or...
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| October 08, 2012

Staying out of prison / East Oakland parolee has spent half his life behind bars. Now he's fighting himself and the system to stay clean. Can he finally do it?

Jason B. Johnson, Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, December 30, 2002 Antaun Williams has spent half of his 34 years in prison, including a five-year stint for carjacking and kidnapping. Two months...
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| October 08, 2012

Prison Coffee, Commissary, and the Alternative Inmate Economy

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 One of the things I did not consider when I went to prison was that I would no longer get coffee. Of course, this was the least of my worries as I was readying myself to...
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| October 08, 2012

Prison Economics: How Fish and Coffee Become Cash - Wired Magazine

· Wired February 2011 Nothing makes you more powerful inside the joint than a strong grounding in currency arbitrage. Inmates in federal penitentiaries aren’t allowed to have actual money; family...
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| October 08, 2012

Bernie Madoff's Life In Prison: Sketchy Criminal Friends, Bocci, And Watching CNN

Courtney Comstock  -  June 21, 2010 The latest update about Bernie Madoff's life in prison has reports of Madoff's allegedly having a hidden stash of $9 billion, collapsing because of...
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| October 08, 2012

Convicted county executive readies for his prison term

Early morning wake-up. Breakfast in the mess hall with fellow convicted felons, many of them former drug dealers. Working until the afternoon at a job in the kitchen, the laundry or the grounds...
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| October 08, 2012

Doin’ Time Usin’ Time

May 2, 2012  Here I am, 17 1/2 years later, and I still look up and wonder, “How’d I get here?” Separated from society, family, friends and my dreams. As terrible as I feel though, that’s nothing...
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| October 08, 2012

Edgefield Federal Prison, Sept 11, 2001 - Forbes

On September 11, 2001, I was sitting in Cell Block D-1 in Edgefield Federal Prison Camp in Edgefield, SC. After being incarcerated for nearly 6 months, I was writing a letter to my two sons who...
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