The Bloomberg campaign says they cut ties with the contractor once they found out.
The Oklahoma Department of Corrections said inmates often made such calls for political surveys and campaigns. Public Information Officer Matthew Elliot confirmed that they contract with ProCom to operate call centers inside their facilities. Skip Taylor, a ProCom liaison, also confirmed the existence of such a program.
ProCom told ABC News it pays the Oklahoma minimum wage of $7.25 an hour to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections -- which then pays the inmates working in the call centers. Inmates can also qualify for bonus pay depending on their position, the company said in a statement. The inmates read from a script for such campaign calls, overseen by staff; but whether they identify themselves as inmates is up to each vendor -- as is any disclaimer that the inmates must be required to provide, such as declaring that the that the calls were paid for by the Bloomberg campaign.
2020 Democratic presidential hopeful and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg talks to supporters during an event to open a campaign office at Eastern Market in Detroit, Michigan, Dec. 21, 2019.Bloomberg sent a statement in response, underscoring that his campaign was taking the news seriously.
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