Gee, he nice man just had a change of heart....er, now that he's "famous"
msn.com
he's a f'n racist charging families to "visit" their young kids by phone of video....
"Swanson told Holt that when he became undersheriff in 2010, the reason for the policy was “money.”
Genesee County had to cut 10% of its budget when he first started, he said, so when officials were looking at how much revenue video calls would bring in, it was “very attractive,” he admitted.
“And it still is to sheriffs across the country. But we’re going to change that,” he said.
And that means now.
Swanson said he believes he made a mistake so many years ago and “regardless” of how the court rules on the current class action lawsuit naming him and the jail he oversees, he vowed to reinstate the in-person visits next month.
When Holt pressed Swanson about why it took litigation for the prison to come around, Swanson said “it didn’t have to.”
But it did, he acknowledged, and added that the money left “on the table” — they earned about $400,000 on video calls in the last year — was money he did not need.
“And it’s money that doesn’t come from the inmates, it comes from their families. And so, you’re penalizing people and I see that now,” Swanson said.
A report in 2021 from Business Insider found that the exceedingly high cost of prison phone calls has generated more than $1 billion in profits while driving women and people of color into debt." |
