An inmate at Central State Prison in Macon, Ga., sent...
An inmate at Central State Prison in Macon, Ga., sent a handwritten letter to the FCC urging the commission to “do away with the fees” for using the TTY system to communicate with family members (http://bit.ly/ZRqR3A). The letter-writer said he…
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was writing on behalf of a hearing-impaired inmate “because I see what he goes through trying to speak with his family using the TTY system that never works properly.” Prisons make enough money charging for standard prison payphone services that they should exempt those with hearing disabilities from payment, the inmate said. The commission had sought comment on inmate use of TTYs in its December NPRM, noting that the record suggests TTY users have to pay additional fees to connect to a TTY relay operator (http://xrl.us/bn8bz9).