318-746-1250

Prison Payphone

I received a call from this number - a collect call from an inmate in prison.

I received a call from this number. The person has called 3 times since this morning. I do not know anybody who will call me from a pay phone and not leave a message

A Male called from this number and an automated message said it was a prepaid call from <too hard to understand name>.  I hung up.  The call was on Nov 14, 2007 at 12:33pm mountain time.

This caller kept calling about 8-10 times back to back between 11pm-12(midnight) central time.  I don't recognize the number so I don't answer and when voicemail picks up I recieve a msg stating something about "caller using 3-way and if you want to accept call press....etc".  Never get a msg from a person to know who it is.  This is not the first time it has happened.  I receieved the first call a couple weeks ago from this occurance on December 16,2007.

Rec'd a collect call from 318-746-1250 late in the night on January 3, 2008.  Don't know anyone in prison or in Lousiana, so I hung up.  They called right back, and I hung up again, but they didn't call back.

Just receive a phone call from this number.  It was my son's recorded voice, but when you try to accept the call, it gave us an 800 number to call saying our number was not set up to take the calls.  Once we called the 800 number, it says it will cost us $69. to set it up with our CC or Debit Card.  Sorry, no can do.

Perhaps a wrong number or something?

This number is a dial-out only line for Natchitoches Parish Detention Center (and others) run by a company called City Telecoin.

It's a prepaid collect service more often than not, meaning that a balance has to be present on an account corresponding to the number being dialed. If you received a call from this number, I'd imagine that it WAS an actual collect call seeing that you have no reason to be getting calls from such facilities.

For the record, there IS a way to set up an account for this type of call for less than seventy bucks. If you do a Western Union QuickCollect (To: City Telecoin/Attn: inmate name/city code: CALLCTC/State: LA or whichever pertains/Ref #: 9999/Acct # w/ company: phone number you want to buy time for), you can do it for $30 plus the ten it costs to send such a payment. Granted, it doesn't get that much time on their gross long distance rates, but if you do want to do it, then this is the way for folks like myself who consider $70 to be on the side of exorbitant.

Hope someone might find this useful, as it was a pain in the butt for me to get hashed out properly so a good friend could get ahold of me.

where is this prison at.

The call could come from anywhere. My friend received a call from a friend in prison in Arkansas, and the call was routed through this number. More than likely the subscribed inmate lines dial through to an access number that reaches a pre-paid collect call operator service.

Have been receiving calls from this number for a couple of months now, but until tonight had never actually answered the phone when the call came in. Usually it's just a voice mail message that's left indicating that it's a collect call from a prison.  The person calling, someone named Gene, is not someone I know and the voice is unfamiliar. My thought is that this person must have dialed the number by mistake (or at random) and upon hearing a female voice on the voice mail message decided to keep calling until he got a person to answer, probably in hopes of finding some sucker to accept his collect calls.  After the third call, I had my husband answer the phone... we'll see if he continues calling.

what part of La is this prison?

My 90 year old mother received at least 7 calls last night between 11 and midnight before she disconnected her phone.  There was another call between 2 and 3 PM today.  She had been victimized this way several years ago while I was working in the Corrections system, and thought I may have been trying to place a 3-way call.  At that time it appeared the company providing pay phone service to the prison was complicit in the scam.  I intend to contact the Richland Parish Detention Center and file a complaint.

recieved call by th number 12/03/08. contact hung up before ne details were provided.

I called the number back and the Lady said the Prisons are all over.  This is the number you call to prepay for the calls from inmates, degit cards, cc cards, western union, etc.

This is Richland Correctional Facility in Monroe, LA

They can not leave any messages. This was a collect call from a prison pay phone.

The prison is called Richland and is supposed to be in Monroe but the mailing address is Bossier City. LA

Just received a collect call from same number, but was disconnected after I said "hello"

It real funny that this city telecoin and the local jails have the power to tell you who can call your phone collect.As if they are paying the bill. At&t doesnt have any have any restrictions so who is city telecoin to tell me who can call my phone collect? they do this to keep money in their pockets. boundaries are being over stepped.