Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB948

Introduced

2/2/24

Refer

2/2/24

State Correctional Facilities - Incarcerated Individuals - Costs of Telephone Communications

Crossfiled State Correctional Facilities – Incarcerated Individuals – Costs of Telephone Communications

Carry Over Task Force to Assess the Viability for No-Charge Phone Calls for State Incarcerated Individuals (Keeping Families Connected Act of 2023)

Limits use of restrictions on telephone calls as discipline measure during incarceration.

Jails and juvenile facilities: communications, information, and commissary services: contracts.

Jails: commissary.

Telecommunications: universal service.

State Correctional Facilities - Incarcerated Individuals - Costs of Telephone Communications

State Correctional Facilities – Incarcerated Individuals – Costs of Telephone Communications

Provides free telecommunication services for incarcerated persons at State, county, and private adult and juvenile correctional facilities.

State Correctional Facilities - Incarcerated Individuals - Costs of Telephone Communications