Collect Calls... Jail?

Question

Someone I know is in jail and he wants to talk to me without having someone listening on the line. (He calls three-way). I've been reading on here that you can by pre-paid phone cards, but do those actually work? Like would the inmate be able to use a phnoe card to call me? If not, is there a way I can set up collect calling without it being billed to my house phone? Like would I be able to use a credit card so that the cost will ONLY be charged to my credit card?

By the way I'm living in Canada, if that helps.

Answer 1

you live in canada... but where is the person jailed.. where to the calls originate?

verizon recently aquired MCI, so the actual policies for "collect calls" from jail may have changed...

you should call your local phone provider for there specific procedures, but for the most part, you need to set up a prepaid account with MCI to get calls from prisons... most prisoners will call 1 person, whoever that is.. and the person that they called will 3 way into whoever else the person needs to call.. i guess they are only allowed 1 call.. this is a trick around that..

prison phones are monitored.. so whatever he says on the phone will be monitored and possibly recorded..

the calls should not appear on your phone bill, but on the prepaid MCI account (your phone company may package this with your phone bill, but more then likely it will be a separate invoice)

Answer 2

I do not think so.
You have to give the jail the number he is to call on the collect calls.
They do not let cons have luxuries in jail.
Sorry.