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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(Score: 4, Interesting) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Thursday June 15 2017, @12:25AM
Correct. I don't feel like spending the time to dig up citations now but there's plenty of empirical evidence that recidivism goes down when connections to the outside go up.