31-01-2019 00:46 via ottawacitizen.com

Bell, let's talk about making it easier for inmates to call from jail, say protesters

Farhat Rehman’s son Rehman Kurd is in prison in the Millhaven Institution, a maximum-security prison.
Kurd suffers from mental illness but most recently has been battling paranoia, said his mother. He fears his mother is being attacked and leaves messages on her landline at home. Because of the way the system works, she can’t call him back to assure him that she’s fine.
Farhat Rehman, a member of MOMS / Mothers Offering Mutual Support, talks about the difficulty of phoning her
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