| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1 | Anonymous | Please help stop the extortion of outrageous telephone rates for inmate phone calls by the Illinois Department of Corrections. |
| 2 | Melissa & Scott | The cost are outrageous. |
| 3 | Anonymous | |
| 4 | Holley Kramer | My phone calls from IL prisons to Minnesota are $40 each including all the taxes for a 30 minute call! The connect charge alone is $5! |
| 5 | Linda Goodman | |
| 6 | Anonymous | This is an important casue! Please support it! |
| 7 | Betty | |
| 8 | Anonymous | The calls are absurdly expensive ! Many people cannot afford them. Studies show that inmates who are able to have close contact with family do better while in and are at less risk of returning to prison. Other states allow inmates to make MUCH cheaper direct calls uisng prepaid cards, why not Illinois ????? |
| 9 | Pepper Elam | |
| 10 | Janet Chilton | We're getting ripped off!! |
| 11 | Shaena Fazal | |
| 12 | Jacki Gansch | |
| 13 | Anonymous | |
| 14 | Lucy Musielak | |
| 15 | Haydee Schrader | Phone calls are too expensive! |
| 16 | Kristi Hedger | |
| 17 | Karen Todd | I feel it is so important for families to be allowed to talk, it could help inmates to stay in touch with children and to have a say in family decisions. An affordable phone service is a must for this. |
| 18 | Vida B. Musielak | |
| 19 | Elizabeth Ackerman | I fully agree with the petiton. |
| 20 | Anonymous | Do it for the families, if nothing else. |
| 21 | Dawn Coen | |
| 22 | Anonymous | please help lower out phone calls from prisons |
| 23 | Anonymous | |
| 24 | Susan Sheehan | |
| 25 | Ibi Cole | |
| 26 | Melissa Petrovich | |
| 27 | Anonymous | The overcharging of phone rates to families of inmates is unfair and it should be regulated. This is punishing the families for contact with their loved one. It is painful enough to got through thr process of their incarceration. Please change the system and give us cheaper rates for phone bills!! |
| 28 | Lisa Engelkins | It is outrageous the amount these calls cost for Illinois Inmates who have out of state family members such as myself. For most we are their only hope for any type of contact or normalcy. We shouldn't have to suffer financially just to keep in touch with our loved ones. |
| 29 | Nancy Doyle | This is a violation of humanity! We have no other options to comunicate with our loved ones, please stop the extortion now! |
| 30 | sean sheehan | |
| 31 | Mandy Folkes | |
| 32 | Teena Purdiman | |
| 33 | Gary Peltier | |
| 34 | Anonymous | |
| 35 | Dana McCurry | |
| 36 | Angeline Reeks | The enormous amounts that I have to pay each month to talk with my son doubles and more than doubles my monthly telephone bill. That is not logical nor is it fair. This is punishing the families and friend of Illinois inmates. |
| 37 | Tom Broderick | The costs of the phone calls from the incarcerated to their families and friends are just another layer of punishment. If the charges are going to be as high as they are for security reasons, then those costs should be absorbed by the Department of Corrections. |
| 38 | Frank Nicholas | It hurts me to think that a large successful business could punish the families and friends of incarcerated individuals by charging extremely high rates for services they provide. It's inhumane! Please change your ways and your rates, and do it now. The Bible says in Hebrews 13:3 that we should consider prisoners as if we ourselves were suffering as they are. If it were me and my child were in prison, my heart would cry out if I too were being punished, even with my phone calls. Prisoners' money comes very hard. |
| 39 | Barb Hasbargen | |
| 40 | JENNIFER CATUARA | |
| 41 | Cher Johnson | This entire situation is appalling. |
| 42 | Deborah Curry | Please help us to get lower cost phone service.It is hard to travel to see the inmates at times. I get to see my son twice a year, so I depend on being able to talk to him. |
| 43 | Marvin Klein | Long overdue and an excellent improvement |
| 44 | Anonymous | I have already been affected by this. I maxed out a credit card just in telephone calls to stay connected to my fiance alone. My bill was $1,000 for 4 months worth of telephone calls!!! It's outrageous and it is a shame, but that will be the day when I feel the IDOC actually cares for once!!!! |
| 45 | Lauren Craig | The prices are insane! |
| 46 | Anonymous | |
| 47 | Kristie Johnson | It is outrages how much we pay to talk to our love ones and if signing this petition will help in any way then here's my signature. |
| 48 | bill and mary ryan | |
| 49 | Robert Long | Amen! |
| 50 | Ebony Mister | Thank you all so much for bringing this to the governments attention. It is hard enough to have my husband in jail and having to deal with the costsonly son being able to at least he that come with his commissary and to visit him, but also to go day in and day out with out his hear his voice.
The rates and fees that they charge are outrageous and the service is s**t!!!!! They don't care about the inmates and they for damn sure don't care about their loved ones. |