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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 14 2017, @10:10PM (1 child)
Bullshit! The social influence your referring to mostly influences the young and mentally deficient/unstable. The fact of the matter is, draconian drug laws are responsible for 90% of inmates in prisons, and a good portion of those that weren't locked up for drugs are in there over some other petty shit. "Justice" is an ugly ideal and the reality is even uglier.
(Score: 3, Informative) by KGIII on Thursday June 15 2017, @01:00AM
Not according to Google. The percentages are much lower, abiut half for Feds and it looks like about 16% for State.
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