Thursday, March 15, 2012

Telephonegate.

Sheriff Dart
The other 19th ward blog is carrying a story about how inmates at the CC jail are being charged as much as much as $15.00 to make a collect phone call to their families. This is a disgusting raping of the indigent and I believe it has all the makings of  class A scandal.


The only question is, who brought this telephone company into the jail?


Great reporting.
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  1. Blog Administrator.3/15/2012

    Update. Preckinkle now alleging Dart hand his hands in this deal. What does she know?

    County Board President Toni Preckwinkle alleges Sheriff Tom Dart made a side deal with Securus Technologies. Is she alleging Sheriff Dart somehow personally benefited from this multi-million dollar contract?

    Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is calling on the jail to stop a phone service that charges inmates $15 for 15-minute calls. According to Preckwinkle's spokesman, the board president just learned about the $15 calls when WBEZ approached her office for comment last week.
    Preckwinkle's

    Preckwinkle's office said the agreement for the $15 calls did not go through her office. She's recommending that the county discontinue what she calls a side deal which that Sheriff Tom Dart made with Securus Technologies, the company that has an exclusive contract to run the phone system in the jail.

    Securus Technologies will not explain to WBEZ why those calls have to cost $15, or what that $15 pays for.

    Preckwinkle and Dart have both been denying that they pushed for the revenue sharing contract with Securus. The contract charges the mostly poor inmates severely inflated phone rates and then the phone company pays 57 and a half percent, about 4 million dollars a year, back to the county.

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  2. Anonymous3/15/2012

    Kinda tarnishes the image Dart has built for himself as a liberal crusader for the poor, disenfranchised, blah blah blah......

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  3. Anonymous3/15/2012

    Teflon Tom finally has some shit stick to him. They should look into this company's lobbyists...

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  4. Anonymous3/15/2012

    And the way Dart micro-manages the jail he had to know about this.

    Signed
    Cook County C/O

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  5. Blog Administrator.3/16/2012

    Murph i have bomb shell for you!

    Confirmed: Tom Dart's top animal crimes investigator indicted. Media left out in the cold. Source says numerous high profile Animal Cruelty cases now in jeopardy!

    http://19thwardpolitics.blogspot.com/

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  6. Anonymous3/16/2012

    you mean they don't get free cell phones???? how appalling

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