The Inmate Advantage Calling Plan was developed to facilitate positive and affordable communications services for Inmates and their Friends and Families.

dPi Teleconnect, LLC, a leading provider of prepaid services credit and cash constrained consumers, today announced it has developed a new prepaid calling product that will be marketed and sold through its Agent Sales Network. The Inmate Advantage Calling Plan will be tested through an initial distribution to 150 selected Agents on February 1, 2008 with a full rollout to its entire Agent Network during the summer months.

The United States has the largest percentage of prison population in the Western World with over 1,600,000 US citizens behind bars and another 3,500,000 on house arrest. The Inmate Advantage Calling Plan was developed to facilitate positive and affordable communications services for Inmates and their Friends and Families.

According to Dave Dorwart, President and CEO of dPi, "There is no worse feeling than that of being alone and helpless. This especially applies to the families of those who are incarcerated just as much as it does to those behind the walls. dPi's goal in developing this product is to bridge the currently unaffordable communication barriers that exist in the use of the "collect calling only" methods in use in the prison systems today."

Dorwart goes on to quote an article recently published in the NY Times that states, "Studies of prison inmates clearly show that keeping them in contact with friends and family is vital to giving them a chance to create an honest life after incarceration, yet the simple act of picking up the phone to call home can be bankrupting for inmates and their families. The counterproductive system now in place around the country charges them as much as six times the going rate for collect calls placed from inside local, state, and federal facilities. The collect-call service providers keep a stranglehold on the business by paying the state prisons a legalized kickback or a commission."

"These costs are borne by spouses, parents and other collect-call recipients who typically come from the country's poorest families. Worse still, these families can be barred from receiving a prisoner's collect call at all until they open costly accounts with the same companies that provide the prison phone service. With bills that sometimes reach into the hundreds of dollars a month, families must often choose between talking to an incarcerated loved one and paying the rent. The lost contact is especially crushing for imprisoned parents, who make up more than half the national prison population and are often held in prisons hundreds of miles away from their children" the article goes on to state.

dPi is the first and only prepaid focused service provider to offer these inmate calling services to its customer base. As dPi continues to grow through acquisition and other methods, "We will continue to develop our product mix to address every communication gap in our effort to provide affordable fixed rate communications services to both our Agent and Customer base" said Dorwart.

About dPi Teleconnect, LLC
dPi Teleconnect provides communication and utility services to both commercial and residential accounts. dPi's prepaid residential services include home phone service, Internet, debit cards, Energy (Electric and Gas) and cellular products to the credit and cash constrained consumer. dPi also provides Energy (Electric and Gas) to commercial accounts, and the company is the preferred Energy provider to Agent locations in Texas where dPi provides one consolidated bill and rate while monitoring the stores' Energy consumption on a monthly basis. dPi also provides Agents with a business telephone line service where the Agent receives one consolidated bill for multiple locations with a reduced rate for business line service. The company's diversified catalog of products empowers customers by supplying them with services essential to today's progressive society. dPi's Agent distribution network consists of more than 8,000 authorized payment centers giving customers convenient locations to make initial and renewal payments. dPi is majority owned by Rent-A-Center (NYSE: RCII).