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Class action filed against Bell over prison phone contract

Briefs | 02/12/2020 5:21 pm EST

Attorneys representing an unnamed former inmate at several Ontario prisons have filed a class action lawsuit against BCE Inc., for what they say are the “unconscionable” telephone rates for prisoners in Bell’s contract with the Ontario prison system. 

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