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Court Wipes Out Inmate Intrastate Calling Price Caps

posted by n1 on Wednesday June 14 2017, @04:05PM   
from the captive-audience dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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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• Re:FinallyRe:Finally (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 14 2017, @05:43PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 14 2017, @05:43PM (#525539)

  I note your sarcasm, but in fact the problem is that this is a case where Global Tel*Link has a monopoly on the prisons it serves, so market forces cannot solve the problem.

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• Re:FinallyRe:Finally (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 14 2017, @06:30PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 14 2017, @06:30PM (#525582)

  A government granted and enforced monopoly, to boot.

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  • Re:Finally(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @12:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @12:15PM (#525960)

    A government granted and enforced monopoly, to boot jackboot.

    FTFY

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