{"id":2867,"date":"2014-11-25T10:34:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T14:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2016-01-25T10:27:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T14:27:39","slug":"ncicvideo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/25\/ncicvideo\/","title":{"rendered":"New video explains jail telephone industry&#8217;s hidden fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncic.com\">NCIC<\/a>, one of the smaller companies in the prison and jail telephone industry, has made a two minute video that explains how some players in the industry cheat families, the jails, <i>and<\/i> state regulators by charging the families hidden fees and then quietly pocketing that money. <\/p>\n<p>The perspective of the video is different than a lot of what we post on this blog; it comes from a <a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/05\/28\/policies\/\">more-ethical<\/a> company speaking directly <i>to jails<\/i> about how the the current system isn&#8217;t as good for the jails as they have been led to believe. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S3iB0p49oZ8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For more on hidden fees and other nasty tricks that hurt families without bringing in a dime for the facilities (like <a href=\"\/phones\/pleasedeposit.html#emergency\">Text-To-Collect and other &#8220;single-call&#8221; programs<\/a>) see our 2013 report <a href=\"\/phones\/pleasedeposit.html\">Please Deposit All of Your Money: Kickbacks, Rates and Hidden Fees in the Jail Phone Industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One company produces a video explaining to Sheriffs how the status quo is bad for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phones","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}