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Connecticut Senate Bill 972: An Act Concerning Communication Services In Correctional And Juvenile Detention Facilities

The Connecticut Legislature passed a bill requiring the Commissioner of Correction to provide free voice communication service to all individuals confined in a correctional or juvenile detention facility, and prohibits …

How California Jails and Youth Lockups Profit off Incarcerated People & Their Families

In partnership with the Young Women’s Freedom Center and the Children’s Defense Fund of California, the San Francisco Financial Justice Project examined the costs of phone calls in youth lockups …

California Senate Bill 555

This bill aims to eliminate the high costs of jail phone calls, video visits and other electronic communications. The bill would also regulate the prices of hygiene products and food …

New York Assembly Bill A7658A: Providing voice communication service to incarcerated people at no cost.

This bill would require New York to provide free calls for people incarcerated in jails and prisons. It forbids state and local agencies from generating revenue through communications services.

Paying for Jail: How County Jails Extract Wealth from New York Communities

This report examines the burdensome costs of phone calls, commissary, and disciplinary tickets assessed by New York jails, specifically those outside of New York City.

Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act of 2019

The Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act clarifies that the Federal Communications Commission – an agency housed within the Executive branch of the federal government – has the legal authority to stop prison phone companies from charging exorbitant fees to incarcerated people.

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Connecticut Senate Bill 972: An Act Concerning Communication Services In Correctional And Juvenile Detention Facilities

How California Jails and Youth Lockups Profit off Incarcerated People & Their Families

California Senate Bill 555

New York Assembly Bill A7658A: Providing voice communication service to incarcerated people at no cost.

Paying for Jail: How County Jails Extract Wealth from New York Communities

Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act of 2019

Justice “cost points”: Examination of privatization within public systems of justice

Connecticut House Bill 6714: Concerning the cost of telecommunications services in correctional facilities.

Commercialized (In)justice: Consumer Abuses in the Bail and Corrections Industry

State of Phone Justice: Local jails, state prisons and private phone providers