GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
H	1
HOUSE BILL 10

 
 
Short Title:	Prison Telephone System.	()	
Sponsors:	Representative Sherrill.	
Referred to:	Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House.	
January 29, 2001

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO DIRECT THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION TO PROVIDE MINIMUM SECURITY INMATES WITH MORE FLEXIBILITY IN PLACING LOCAL CALLS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Department of Correction shall provide minimum security inmates with the ability to have the cost of local calls debited from their trust accounts instead of having those costs charged to the recipients of the calls.
SECTION 2.  The Department of Correction shall report to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations by October 1, 2001, on the steps it has taken to comply with Section 1 of this act and shall provide a report to the 2002 Session of the 2001 General Assembly on the telephone services available to inmates in the State prison system, the charges made for those services, and the means by which inmates are permitted to pay for those services.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.