FCC reduces out-of-state prison phone rates
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The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously Thursday to lower some of the rates incarcerated people and their families pay to speak over the phone. For jurisdictional reasons, the measure only applies to interstate or international calls.
The Commission approved a measure that prohibits companies like Global Tel Link and Pay Tel Communications from charging families and incarcerated people more than 12 cents a minute in large prisons and 14 cents a minute in large jails for out-of-state calls. Previously, rates were capped at 21 cents a minute and single conversations could total several dollars. The action also caps international calling services for the first time.
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Affordable calls from prisons are a human right!
April 26, 2021
Learn more about how you can get involved with keeping caged families connected! GTL and Securus Technologies are part of the parasitic, state-sponsored corporate structure in place to keep prisoners locked up to pad the pockets of CEOs and government officials. Rehabilitation is of no interest to either these “service providers” or CDCr, even in spite of the hard proof that increased contact between prisoners and their families reduces recidivism. As of April 2020, the California State Prison System incarcerates approximately 117,000 people. In US prisons, seamless, free communication should be prioritized as a right. Attend the CPUC public hearings on ensuring prison phone justice Wednesday, April 28, at 1:30 p.m. and Thursday, April 29, at 6:30 p.m.!
Amid a pandemic that’s roiled incarcerated populations across Colorado, people held at the El Paso County jail have lost an age-old comfort the ability to keep letters, cards and photos in their cells.
In a change that took effect in early April, the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center will no longer receive or distribute mail for inmates, the sheriff’s office has confirmed.
Instead, relatives and friends are directed to send all correspondence to a for-profit vendor in North Carolina, where it is scanned, uploaded to a server and made available to inmates digitally via tablet computers they check out during their free time. After 30 days, the original copies of their mail are destroyed unless the sender arranges for them to be returned, authorities say.
Today
Some clouds this evening will give way to mainly clear skies overnight. Low 42F. Winds W at 10 to 20 mph..
Tonight
Some clouds this evening will give way to mainly clear skies overnight. Low 42F. Winds W at 10 to 20 mph. Updated: April 24, 2021 @ 3:46 pm