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New communications system for Kendall County Jail inmates launching this month · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: New communications system for Kendall County jail inmates launching this month.
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  This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  to you by Everlett. The Kendall County Sheriff's Office is
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  introducing a new communications system for jail inmates. The new system,
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  provided by Texas based NCIC Inmate Communications, is set to
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  be operational at the jail by January twenty sixth. According
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  to officials, inmates will have access to wall mounted phones
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  and secure handheld tablets capable of a large range of functions,
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  including phone calls, video visitation, messaging, and a wide variety
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  of educational and rehabilitative programming. Officials said rates for phone
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  calls and video visits with inmates have been reduced compared
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  to the old system. The system comes at no expense
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  to taxpayers. Friends and families of inmates who would like
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  to set up and fund a prepaidcout out for phone
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  calling and video visitation can call one eight hundred nine
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  four three two one eight nine or go to NCIC
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  dot com. According to its website, NCIIC was established in
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  nineteen ninety five, making it the longest running telecom carrier
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  in the inmate telephone industry. The Richard A. Randall Public
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  Safety Center in Yorkville houses the county jail, the Sheriff's Office,
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  Kencom public Safety Dispatch, and the Kendall County Emergency Management Agency.
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  Randall was the Kendall County Sheriff from nineteen eighty six
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  to twenty fourteen and is the longest serving sheriff in
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  Kendall County history.