Rallying support behind the Inmate Calling Technical Corrections Act (S.2520), the Center for Media Justice and members of our Media Action Grassroots Network – including Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (UCIMC) and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights – joined other criminal justice reform leaders for a Prison Phone Justice advocacy day at the U.S. Senate yesterday. Read more
On January 1, 2018, a new bill took effect in Illinois cutting by half the cost of phone calls from prison. Families with an incarcerated loved one are already seeing their phone bills drop. The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (UCIMC), a MAG-Net anchor member, forwarded the bill that was sponsored by State Representative Carol Ammons. Read more
Center for Media Justice joined this Petition to Deny, filed June 16, 2017, in connection with the proposed transfer of control of Securus Technologies, Inc., T-NETIX, Inc., and T-NETIX Telecommunications Services, Inc.
This Infographic was created to explain the new prison phone rates went into effect March 16th, 2016
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.
An October 2015 infographic providing comparative analysis of proposed FCC reforms to fix a broken prison and jail telephone industry.
A 2015 fact sheet detailing the predatory rates, fees, and other practices of the broken prison and jail telephone industry.
The attached letter went out from 15 Senators lauding the FCC for capping prison phone charges. Signers are Booker, Sanders, Leahy, Durbin, Blumenthal, Markey, Casey, Heinrich, Brown, Franken, Coons, Whitehouse, Wyden, Menendez, and Peters.
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.