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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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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 14 2017, @07:40PM
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People don't get to vote. Nearly all land is owned by one company under the control of one man, with the remainder being a university that he owns 50% of. The place is surrounded by miles of swamp, so you can't trivially go to the next town over for anything.
If you annoy the company, the cops will block your access to places and will threaten you with arrest. You will surely lose your job too.
It's a planned Catholic community too, so you can't buy birth control or porn anywhere in town.