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RE: “Reach Out and Pay Someone” [News, March 4], regarding how Oregon jails charge for inmates’ calls.

While it is a legitimate debate as to whether costs for correctional programs should be shifted onto the backs of inmates, I don’t think that it is at all clear what the state’s taxpayers think about that idea…

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Marjorie Skinner is the Portland Mercury's Managing Editor, author of the weekly Sold Out column chronicling the area's independent fashion and retail industry, and a frequent contributor to the film and...