Inmates are being used everyday in a chance to make money. The one thing that inmates are able to use in the prisons are the phones. Thousands of dollars are being made by inmates just by using the phones alone. To make a call there is a fee of around $1.25 and .25 cents of every minute used. According to Boraas (2014) the Lawrenceville prison in Virgina generated $352,000 and that was off prepaid cards alone. The prepaid cards were bought from the inmates and their love ones. The money that the prisons make off the inmates help keep costs down to operate the jail.
