How Do I Communicate With A Prison Inmate?

[Ibrahim Hughes]

I just found out that the only heir/owner of a vacant and abandoned property I'm tracking is in prison. My thinking is that he can likely only make collect calls. I'm going to initiate contact via letter. Is there a cheap way for him to make collect calls from prison with me footing the bill? It's been a while since I've purchased anything from someone in prison and I'm just wondering if technology has advanced much to make the process easier and cheaper.

Thanks in advance!

[Jon Holdman]

Some jails and prisons use a system like Inmate Calling Solutions. You can put money into an account for a specific phone number (yours). That allows the inmate to call that number cheaper (for you) than calling collect. Still not at all cheap.