>You have to give wardens/politicians money to put any kind of technology in their prisons, so free video chat/messaging isn't going to happen unless some benev

>You have to give wardens/politicians money to put any kind of technology in their prisons, so free video chat/messaging isn't going to happen unless some benevolent billionaire prince is funding you. Having done a decent amount of IT work at prisons, this isn't really the case. What I did often see, however, is that various vendors would give a very long free trial and free hardware to the prisons I worked with, with the basic idea being to lock them in when the obscenely high normal rates kick in after the free year or however long the trial was