Prison Phone HB 6200 – Fact Sheet
Here is a new Fact Sheet for Illinois House Bill 6200.
In September 2014, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced it would be considering further reforms to prison telephone rates. This toolkit was designed as a guide for community members and organizations to submit comments to the FCC.
This blog was reposted with the permission of the authors, Joe Torres and Steven Renderos and was originally published on the Freepree.org site. Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, will soon decide whether to approve or deny Charter’s proposed $90 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. We believe Read more
In the coming months the FCC will vote on the expansion of the Universal Lifeline Program to include affordable broadband services. Download these quick fact sheets and learn a little bit more about the Lifeline program and the proposed expansion.
The Center for Media Justice joins Change to Win and signed on to this letter asking the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to investigate T-Mobile’s misleading advertisements and abusive debt collection practices.
Voices for Internet Freedom, Which the Center for Media Justice is apart of sent this letter to the FCC urge them to adopt strong, enforceable, and sustainable Open Internet rules that will protect the Internet as an open platform.
This fact sheet breaks down the Lifeline program in the U.S. and is apart of the Lifeline Toolkit 2016 .
Here is a brief fact sheet explaining the need for expanding the Lifeline program.
Here is a brief 1 pager that explains our #RighToConnect campaign and why the time for action on prison phones and the Lifeline program is now.