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A federal appeals court today struck down price caps on intrastate phone calls made by prisoners. Inmates will thus have to continue paying high prices to make phone calls to family members, friends, and lawyers.
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with prison phone company Global Tel*Link in its lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission. But that's exactly what the FCC's current leadership wanted. The FCC imposed the prison phone rate caps during the Obama administration, but current FCC Chairman Ajit Pai instructed commission lawyers to drop their court defense of the intrastate caps.
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Court Wipes Out Inmate Intrastate Calling Price Caps
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @12:07AM
>Simple fix: send the signals out of the state and back!
Simple, and almost certain to get the inmate in terrible trouble.
Call forwarding is strictly forbidden in every facility I've heard of and the regulations are viciously enforced. You can end up in the hole for eight days, four of them on 24-hour lockdown, without a change of clothes, and spend an extra three weeks in prison because of lost good conduct time simply because of making a three-way call to family members.