The Federal Communications Commission will no longer enforce a rule capping the price of prison phone calls, according to an announcement made Monday by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.
The move suspends a 2024 FCC decision that capped the price of in-state phone calls at 6 cents minute for prisons and large jails and 7 cents per minute for medium-sized jails. Before the decision, a 15-minute phone call could cost as much as $11.35 at large jails in some states. Under the 2024 rules, those same phone calls would cost 90 cents.
Disconnecting incarcerated people increases the problems of institutionalization and further alienates them from important social networks that provide emotional support while incarcerated and will provide a higher chance of success with reintegrating following release.
Prison email/messaging systems are also an absolute gouge.
The people who profit from incarcerated people are scum. The government officials who have privatized any single aspect of the judicial system are also scum. “Justice” that generates fortunes for anyone can’t possible be a real justice for a society.
Prison email/messaging systems are also an absolute gouge.
A buddy of mine is incarcerated. When he went in in 2017 I bought email tokens, they were $1 each. I am about to use my last token and I worry how much it will be now.
I thought the Ohio Department of “Rehabilitation” and Correction was bad. A whole dollar for a plain text email of very limited length in the 21st century. What a shame.
JFC, every tiny lobbyist got a say in this thing. Donated $1,000 bucks? You’re in!
