Kiosk lets families pay for inmates’ calls

SUMMERSIDE — It’s now easier for inmates at the Island’s provincial correctional facilities to call home.

A kiosk has been set up at the Prince County Court House here, which is in the same building as the Prince County Jail, that will allow family of inmates to prepay for their family member’s phone calls.

Gordie Roche says the system was put in place at no cost to taxpayers but it will make it easier for families to stay in touch with their family member behind bars.

“It’s a mode where the family of our inmates can prepay on the phone system,” said Roche.

“They put the necessary phone number in, etc., and it prompts them. It then discounts the phone costs for the inmates since it is prepaid.”

The kiosk two located jails.

The second is at the Provincial Correctional Facility in Sleepy Hollow.

They are available through the correctional is in one of

Island facilities’ phone service provider, Synergy, a relatively new company to the province.

“It’s part of what Synergy ... has offered. It’s offered so that, with the prepayment, it gives the inmates a much better rate,” said Roche.

“( The cost) would be covered by Synergy. It is their system. It would be part of the package they’re providing, the inmate phone system.”

He said the Island’s correctional facilities are the first in the region to have the system in place.