The Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act will allow for the price of intrastate inmate phone calls to be regulated by the FCC
An inmate uses a telephone from a cell at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, California, Aug. 16, 2016.Fees for phone calls for people incarcerated in America's prisons have skyrocketed in the past three years -- with the industry costing families nearly $1 billion a year -- according to the Prison Policy Initiative, a think tank.
The legislation was named after Martha Wright-Reed, who originally filed a petition with the FCC seeking to reduce the price of prison phone calls to keep in touch with her incarcerated grandson. Rosenworcel has said the FCC should be "embarrassed" and "that it has taken us so long to fix this problem is especially shameful," but she welcomed the ongoing push to change call regulations.
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