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Earlier inmates were allowed to make phone calls once in a month, for five minutes. AURANGABAD: The state prison department issued a circular granting inmates lodged in prisons permission to make phone calls to their families back home twice a month, depending on their overall behaviour in jail. Two are women-only jails – in Akola and Pune.The latest communication offers all jail inmates, excluding those accused of terrorism, Naxalism, gang wars and organised crime permission to call home. Approximately, 28,000 convicts and under-trials are lodged in 54 central, state and district prisons across the state. The behaviour of those in jail will be monitored before permission is granted for them to call their kin..