Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., introduced legislation this week...
Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., introduced legislation this week aimed at regulating telephone services to correctional facilities. The Family Telephone Connection Protection Act (HR-1403) would amend the Communications Act to require the FCC to set a maximum telephone rate at correctional…
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facilities, prohibit service providers from paying commissions to correctional administrators, and require correctional institutions to allow more than one provider to offer telephone services to inmates. If enacted, the legislation would require the commission to implement the new rules within one year, and the rules would be subject to a triennial review. The legislation follows recent pleas from prisoners who in handwritten letters from across the country asked the commission to help bring phone call price reform to the nations’ correctional facilities (CD March 26 p4). The inmate comments were filed in docket 12-375 on the commission’s NPRM on prison phone call reforms (CD Dec 31 p6).