A system for controlling restricted telephone calls that originate from a
facility includes a facility resident telephone for calling a destination
telephone number as a collect call, where the collect call is completed
when accepted, a call processing platform electrically coupled to the
facility resident telephone for prompting for a message to be recorded
and storing the message, when the collect call is not completed, and a
message delivery module for attempting to deliver the message to the
destination telephone, and for prompting for a response to be recorded
from the destination telephone and storing the response when the message
is delivered.