1. (1) The Department of Corrections may enter into a contract with an inmate telephone services provider in which the provider provides inmate telephone services or other inmate communications systems at the provider’s cost and reimburses the department:

   1. (a) For the department’s internal and external costs to oversee and manage the inmate telephone services or communications system; and
   2. (b) To pay third party providers.
2. (2) The department may not enter into a contract with an inmate telephone services provider that authorizes the department to receive a fee or commission for telephone services provided to inmates other than the reimbursement described in subsection (1) of this section.

[2019 c.335 §2]