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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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Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before.
(Score: 2) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Thursday June 15 2017, @12:15AM
But wait, there's more!
Those phone vendors with exclusive (monopoly) contracts pay a "commission" to the prison. If you're a warden, just award the phone contract to the company with the worst rates, and you get a stream of money for your budget independent of what the legislature doles out to you.