Automatic distribution of inmate phone recordings

A system for automatically distributing a recording of a call to an interested party, the call being placed by a calling party through an institutional system to a destination number, comprising:

• a storage device;
• and
• one or more processors coupled to the storage device, the one or more processors configured to:
• associate forwarding criteria with the interested party;
• establish the call from the calling party to the destination number through the institutional system;
• record the call;
• determine that the call satisfies the forwarding criteria associated with the interested party;
• after the call is completed, automatically distribute the recording of the call to the interested party.

A system for automatically distributing a recording of a call to an interested party, comprising:

• a storage device;
• and
• one or more processors coupled to the storage device, the one or more processors configured to:
• store a recipient record in a recipients database, the recipient record including identity information of the interested party and forwarding criteria to specify conditions for determining when the recording of the call will be forwarded;
• establish a connection between a calling party and a called party through an institutional system;
• record the call between the calling party and the called party;
• identify the recipient record whose forwarding criteria are met by information associated with the call;
• after the call is completed, set a status flag to indicate that the recording of the call is available for forwarding;
• and
• in response to a change in status of the status flag, automatically distribute the recording of the call to the interested party.