Rates for intrastate inmate calls should be capped...
Rates for intrastate inmate calls should be capped (CD May 5 p8), Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) Executive Director Paul Wright told FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn aide Rebekah Goodheart and Wireline Bureau officials during a Sept. 12 conference call, said…
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an ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/1mi58Od) posted Wednesday in docket 12-375. Commissions that inmate calling service providers pay to correctional facilities and ancillary charges levied on top of calling rates should be eliminated, Wright said, according to the filing. Also involved in the call were HRDC Associate Director Alex Friedmann; Lance Weber, general counsel; David Ganim, prison phone justice director; Carrie Wilkinson, Washington prison phone justice director; and Drinker Biddle’s Lee Petro, counsel for Martha Wright, the Washington, D.C., grandmother who asked the FCC to regulate high inmate calling service rates. The agency is considering limits on inmate call commissions and rates (CD July 10 p4) after adopting an order last year that responded a decade after the fact to Wright’s petition to cut rates.