Reasonable Communications Act News Today

The Justice Department's Antitrust Division has voiced its support for enhanced competition and reduced prices in incarcerated people's communications services (IPCS). Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter emphasized the importance of affordable communication, stating, "Telephone services are a lifeline between incarcerated people and the outside world." He commended the FCC for its efforts to make rates fairer and more just over the past decade and encouraged further impr...

Thursday afternoons at Parkrose High, Victor Trillo Jr. sets out a spread and welcomes two dozen students as they file in for pizza or wings or subs. Over a meal they talk and write and draw – and they strengthen solidarity during meetings hosted by the nonprofit Pathfinder Network.

Thursday afternoons at Parkrose High, Victor Trillo Jr. sets out a spread and welcomes two dozen students as they file in for pizza or wings or subs. Over a meal they talk and write and draw – and they strengthen solidarity during meetings hosted by the nonprofit Pathfinder Network.

Private equity firms are capturing systems people in prison use and making them even more brutal and unaccountable.

Each month, Kelley Drye’s Communications Group offers this reminder of upcoming filing deadlines that may affect our clients and friends.

The agency has more authority to regulate the cost of those calls, which could mean significant savings for families of the incarcerated.

Carriers and providers of interstate and international telecommunications that seek to revise their May 1, 2023 Form 499-Q filing must do so within 45 days of the Form 499-Q filing deadline.

The high cost of a prison phone call has come down. But a new report sounds the alarm on the escalating costs of non-phone services for incarcerated people.

So a minister, a priest, and a rabbi walk into a Pew Research survey. ...

Proposed legislation seeks to protect defendant rights to attorney-client privilege in jails.