Wood County officials are looking for a way to stop jail inmates from making phone calls to their victims.
Most of the phone call problems have involved domestic abuse cases, Wood County District Attorney Craig Lambert said during a meeting of the Wood County Criminal Justice Task Force Wednesday.
In a domestic abuse case, just the fact that an abuser is trying to call can intimidate the victim, said Trish Anderson, Wood County victim/witness coordinator.
“I’ve had more than one victim say to me, ‘If you can’t protect me when he’s in jail, how can you protect me when he’s out?’” Anderson said.
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