Chapter 1 – General Administration

12070.6 Inmate Access to all State Issued Telephones

• Safeguards shall be implemented to ensure that inmates do not have access to any State issued telephones with the capability of placing/receiving outside calls. These safeguards may include, but are not limited to:

  • Locking rooms that contain telephones.

  • Using locking devices on telephones.

  • Unplugging telephones and removing them from inmate accessed locations.

  • Disconnecting telephone extensions from switchboards.

• State maintained facility telephone lines that have outside capabilities and which are accessible to inmates (to include residences on facility grounds) shall pass through facility switchboards.

  • Switchboard operators shall ensure that a State employee is answering at a given location by requesting name identification.

  • Inmates shall be required to answer a phone by saying, “inmate (name).”