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Adam's avatar

I've never been to prison as a prisoner, but when I did criminal defense I did visit prisons to meet with clients. They've got phones. Usually pay phones, but they have them and can have access to them; especially if you have a rotating class of prisoners who can each come on at different days, and you have supporters outside willing to send them money to make their calls, it wouldn't be that hard to maintain contact with the outside world. Bear in mind, the prison facilities for people convicted of crimes are generally a bit more elaborate than the facilities for people in jails waiting trial or holding for a summary offense, which sounds like your story, Tim.

There were also three major career shocks that made me get out of doing criminal defense. One of them was the necessity of going through a client's phone call recording (since all those calls are tapped and can be used as evidence if they're foolish enough to talk about whatever it is they're accused of doing. I of course tell them not to do this but a lot of people in prison awaiting trials on further charges are not very good at following instructions, so I had to listen on all their calls to make sure I was ready for whatever stuff they said.) and listening to him trying to do phone sex with his girlfriend.

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Tim Miller's avatar

omg

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