Budget Amendment ID: FY2024-S3-890

EPS 890

No Cost Calls

Messrs. Tarr and O'Connor moved that the proposed new text be amended by striking SECTION 25 in its entirety and inserting in place thereof the following:-

"SECTION 25.Chapter 127 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 87 the following section:-

Section 87A. (a) For the purposes of this section, the terms "state correctional facilities", and "state prison" shall have the same meanings as in section 1 of chapter 125.

(b) The department of correction shall provide individuals incarcerated in or civilly committed to a Massachusetts state correctional facility or state prison, with phone calls free of charge to the person initiating and the person receiving the phone call for no more than 1,000 minutes per month per incarcerated or civilly committed individual provided further that for over 1,000 minutes the department of correction and county sheriffs shall charge persons committed to state correctional facilities, state prisons and county correctional facilities, including jails and houses of correction a rate set by the operation services division"