Collect calls from prison to cellphones now possible, vast number changes expected
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted May 8th 2008 9:54AM
posted May 8th 2008 9:54AM
[Image courtesy Celebrity Blackberry Sightings]
posted May 8th 2008 9:54AM
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Lawl. You're effing ridiculous.
Engadget, take note, I come to your site to get away from Paris Hilton. If you continue down this route, I might as well go to CNN for my morning news.
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I love that picture of Lindsay.
NOW your boyfriend who is in jail for whuppin your ass can control you from the convenient privacy of his cell.
"Why you ain' t pick up the phone?
When I get out of here, I'ma WHUP THAT TRICK"
Haha, thats hillarious
Hopefully this is more popular than your GTA4 rant =/
slarity:
r u his bf
Lindsay is showing some nip, might not be work safe :P
dream on.
thats what i thought when i glanced at it too, lol
Hush you!
Nipples ftw!
Blackberry 8700? screw calls, just email with blackberry.
Ah- I love it when press releases aren't thoroughly proofread. They really coulda used one less "s" in the website they referred people to test their product. If they wanted people to go to their actual site, that is.
Mock all you want, but this would have been handy for a uh "friend" when they managed to trespass on the roof of the local mall.... Not mentioning any names in order to, you know, protect the guilt-- er innocent! yeah, that...
Take your blogspam elsewhere you tool - there is enough crap in the intertubes without your scum...
boobs?
It would seem so.
With a Blackberry 8700, get ready for very low quality calls from prison.
Actually, they've had this ability for years through other services, my friend is halfway through a 9 year sentence and he's been calling my cell for 2 years now.
That Hilton slag is amazingly unattractive. Reptilian, almost.
that Wazzzzzuuuuuup ad would be hilarious
Am I supposed to be pleased that yet another american journal forces the endless subjugation and sexual objectification of women , ad nauseum, upon us, driving us further into the new dark age?
The notion that cellphones are more important than medical breakthroughs is ludicrous, the notion that men would get 'popped' for crimes or jail is somehow ''normal'', and the implication that cleavage pushing females are the ones who would be 'changing their numbers' implies a slew of notions that people innately suck. The only thing proved here is Engagdet is a purveyor of the most ignorant stupidty that has possessed america. While you, Engadet, are fast asleep, much of the country is waking up to a new society. Thanks for forever burning Engadget into my memory as perhaps the most ignorant dickwads with keyboards.
whats the view like from a horse that high?
This HAS to be sarcasm, right?
I believe Joshua was using sarcasm
At 2.2 million incarcerated, prison is pretty normal.
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Tell me geoff, is it lonely up there on your pedestal?
What does the mob think of this?
I love the comment about "Happiness Is a Warm Gun." So clever. It made me laugh. :D
this sucks! I have changed my VOIP Number 4 times because I kept getting collect calls from complete strangers begging me to "call their woman" to get to the "big House" and bail them out.
It is bad enough that I get the call, but it really got to me that I would get them at 7am on Sunday Mornings. I work 5 days a week and go to school all days on Saturdays. The lasting thing I want on Sunday Morning is some outraged prisoner telling me what I should do for them.
Dude, where do you live that this happens to you after you change your number four times?
I have never laughed more at a post on Engadget before. Good job Joshua.
funny pop culture picture references accompanying articles of somewhat entirely different content?
what is this place...gizmodo?
What's next? Cell to Cell minutes?
well played sir....
Call me old fashioned, but why the hell do we need phones in prisons anyway? Isn't it supposed to be, uh...PRISON???
I'll own up: I wish this had been around before and I hadn't had to call my mom to bail me out. What are you gonna do when all your friends just have cell phones?
"Hi Mom, couple things, first, I do drugs, second, I need you to bring $300 cash down to the jail. No Ma, they don't take credit cards. Yes I know that's dumb."
In the Federal Bureau of Prisons, you have had the ability to make prepaid calls to cell phones for years. Recently, they enabled a system (it's called ITS, but it's a different one then what's talked about in the article) that allows you to call cell phones collect, but it requires them to setup an account with a credit card, as opposed to billing your phone company directly.