Your inmate can call home by calling collect but AT&T does not have the contract with the jail, you will be paying GTL for this collect call. Please be mindful that this is the most expensive way of receiving and inmate call, it will cost at least $14.99 per 15 minutes.
GTL has a prepaid option through their website. The cost of the calls vary depending upon where the call connects. If you are inter-state long distance, the cost of the call will be between $6-9 per 15 minutes; intrastate long distance is between $4-7 per 15 minutes; and the cheapest way is a local number where the 15 minute call is about $1.65 per 15 minutes.
Depending where you are, you can see that IF you have a local number the calls are the best price option. InmateAid's Discount Telephone Service gets our members the best local line number available for their inmate to dial. The number we give you is set to ring on any phone number of your choosing without interfering with your current service. Let us know if this is something that you need.
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Accepted Answer Date Created: March 05,2015