Are telephones available in the housing units?
Telephones are available in general population housing units for use between 7:00 a.m. and 12:00 midnight, Sunday through Thursday, and 7:00 a.m. and 1:00 a.m. Friday and Saturday at JRDC, but between 7:00am and 11:00pm daily at ORCC. Phones in Jennifer Road’s special housing units remain on 24 hours per day, though inmates in special housing have limited access. Calls are limited to 20 minutes in duration. Phones are operated on a collect call basis provided by an outside company. In order to receive calls from inmates, it is necessary to establish an account with Correctional Billing Systems by calling their customer service center at 1-800-844-6591. Call recipients should note that calls are sensitive to line noise and may be terminated prematurely by noise on the line. They should not use cordless phones, Call Waiting, change telephones during the call, have extensions picked up during the call, place the call on hold, mute the call, push buttons on the phone, tap or bang the recei
