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Sofia from Finland

Hello!
I'd like to find out how can I receive phone calls from an american inmate while being in Finland. The inmate tried calling my normal Finnish phone number but it did not work. The inmate is at a federal transfer center, so that could have something to do with it but other than that i dont know.

How can i get a FREE (or one time payment, not monthly subscription) American phone number that the inmate can call?

 
Pink Unicorn

Hahaha, seriously, Kristen? You are the LAST person to complain about how other people behave with the long-winding and condescending BS you are so fond of. Only you excuse it because you "are German" - get over yourself before you give the same advice ;). 

 
Kirsten

What's wrong, Unicorn? Did you hasve salt in your coffee instead of sugar for being so cranky? If she says inmate or prisoner, it doesn't have to be deregatory necessarily. Get over yourself.

Kirsten

P.S:: I know, sometimes ppl can get on my nerves, too. Asking the same things over and over again, even in threads where the answer would be found, if they read. And yes, it can get on my nerves, too. But I try to keep silent or to stay AFK instead of dumping ppl. 

 

 
Pink Unicorn

I am glad I am not the only one who suffers from vivid imagination, ST4s ;). Mine are usually in cartoon form.

 
ST4s

Okay. Never mind. But suddenly, I’m thinking about pearls and swine and flying fucks all at once, and imagining a fabulously-attired pig floating in the skies above Helsinki ;-)

 
Pink Unicorn

ST4s - pearls before sows ;)

 
Pink Unicorn

Hahaha, your choice of words says more about you than anyone else could. 

 
Sofia from Finland

Google Voice isnt available in my region. I'll see about skype though and will update.

I dont give a flying f*** what anyone thinks of the words i used in this postsmileyThat's all i'll say about that.

 
ST4s

Hi Sofia,

I’m in the U.S., where phone calls from federal prisons are free for the caller. They’re time-limited to around 15 minutes, and quantity-limited to so many calls or so many minutes per month, depending on someone’s security level or circumstances. How free calls from the feds work for overseas numbers, I can only guess, but that guess would be getting a U.S.-based phone number from Skype, GoogleVoice, or some other service that your friend/pen pal can call. FYI, the feds don’t freak out over these third-party numbers/services. I’ve used them myself in the past when calls were not free and having a “local” number to a facility saved everyone a lot of money.

What else? Your English is a bajillion times better than my Finnish or Swedish will ever be (which I don’t speak at all), and if you don’t know this, heads up that the word “inmate”, while accurate in a technical sense, can also be construed as scornful or derogatory in certain contexts. I don’t like to use it when talking about my buds, bros, and friends who happen to be in prison. It’s a conscious effort to dissolve the negative labels, including these others: felon, convict, offender, and so on. Some U.S. states are also rewriting legislation to strike this kind of freighted language with terms like “incarcerated individual” (which is bonkers bureaucrat-speak if you ask me, but preferable to negative terminology).

 

 
Pink Unicorn

The inmate, the inmate, the inmate. Seriously? Have some cop on, really!!!