Does a convicted felon have a constitutional right to make personal long distance phone calls?

While this court has recognized that pretrial detainees have a limited First Amendment right to telephone access, see Strandberg v. City of Helena, 791 F.2d 744, 747 (9th Cir.1986), no court has ever pronounced that convicted felons have a federal constitutional right to make personal long distance phone calls whenever they desire. In fact, one court opined that convicted felons may have no right to make telephone calls at all. See Brenneman v. Madigan, 343 F.Supp. 128, 141 (N.D.Cal.1972) ("While a convicted prisoner may have no right to make any telephone calls at all, a pretrial detainee does." (citations omitted)).