Unlikely coalition targets prison phone call rates

FierceTelecom ^ | 5/18/2011 | Chris Rizo

[bizlawnews]

Decrying the "exorbitant rates" for telephone calls placed from most state prisons and correctional institutions, a broad coalition of civil-rights groups and conservative leaders called Friday on the Federal Communications Commission to examine the harm caused by interstate prison phone call rates.

Pressing the FCC to protect prisoners and their families from "predatory" fees is an unlikely coalition that includes progressive groups--the ACLU, NAACP, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights--and national conservative leaders, including American Values president Gary Bauer, the Rev. Lou Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition, and Galen Carey of the National Association of Evangelicals.

[RowdyFFC]

Actually, I have lots of emperical data on what inmates are out there AND what prisons they’re in, and WHY they’re in there. Do YOU? I’m the one taking their phone service to them! If they didn’t refund the money you gave up front, that simply means you spent it all or else you didn’t even ask if it can be refunded.