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Canada: Remove pay phones to fight crime?
June 04, 2007

"SaskTel is being urged to remove pay phones from an inner city neighbourhood in Regina amid accusations that they're facilitating drug dealing and prostitution.

"But other people argue that the phones, located near the General Hospital in the Core neighbourhood, provide a vital service for low-income people in the area who don't have their own phones at home."

Read more at CBC News

 

 

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