SHARE YOUR STORIES
Tell us your story. Call our toll-free line, 24/7, and record your story on our answering machine on how the prison phone costs have impacted your family. By sharing your story you make the Campaign for Prison Phone Justice stronger. Thank you! Speak from the heart: 877-410-4863. (press-3)
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April 8, 2013
A Prison Justice Poem in Process by Rebecca Preston
After attending the "Call Me (Come Back Home): Fighting the Cost of Prison Calls, Part 1 & Part 2" poet Rebecca Preston began processing this poem-in-progress at the National Conference for Media Reform. Watch this beautiful mind go!
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March 28, 2013
Share Your Prison Phone Story
Whatever your story is we need you to share it? Do you think the cost of prison phone calls makes your community safer? Have you been directly impacted by high-costs? We need to know. Call now at 877-410-4863. (press-3).
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March 16, 2013
Ten Years Later - Still remembers cost
A woman calls in to talk about the rates she paid ten years ago and her concern for families, and specifically children, being cut off from their loved ones.
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February 20, 2013
Lobbying the FCC for Change: Equal Communication Access for Deaf Prisoners!
HEARD interns Rita Torres & Alexandre Dubsky explain how the Community can support equal communication access for all deaf, hard of hearing, speech impaired prisoners and their family members.
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February 12, 2013
Rainbow Push FCC Hearing
On Friday February 1st, 60 people attended a public hearing on prison telephone rates in New York City co-hosted by Rainbow PUSH Coalition and the Campaign for Prison Phone Justice.
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February 7, 2013
It’s No Good For Their Rehabilitation
My boyfriend has been incarcerated for about 20 years now. We've known each other for 13 of those years.
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February 6, 2013
Many times the calls get cut off
Melissa shares her experience with the impact of prison phone calls on her life during her husband's seven years of incarceration.
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February 5, 2013
It really hurt our family
A sister describes her experience taking care of her incarcerated brother's teenage son, and her own young child, while only 24 years old. Years later the experience of being separated and divided by the high-cost of prison phone calls still impacts their family.
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February 1, 2013
MY PLEA TO THE FCC:
STOP THE OBVIOUS BUREAUCRATIC LOOP HOLE EACH STATE HAS DEMONSTRATED THEY WILL EXPLOIT AND TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF!!!!
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January 31, 2013
Help My Boys
Joyce is disabled and on a very tight budget and cannot afford to take calls from her two incarcerated sons. She is worried about them being "alone" and asks if there is a way to make the calls affordable for "regular people."
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January 28, 2013
Your Stories Are Needed
Now is the time to share your stories and experiences with the Federal Communications Commission. We have made it easy!
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December 30, 2012
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December 13, 2012
Hard to Stay in Touch
A wife tells her story about the struggle to stay in touch with her husband.
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December 6, 2012
We are not asking you to free them
A Louisiana mother of an inmate calls in to share her story. She spends 25.00 for three calls from him a week.
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November 19, 2012
Global Tel* Link California
A mother in California shares her experience with the cost of calls using Global Tel*Link.
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November 16, 2012
Prison Phone Call Impact Statements
Calls from folks around the country sharing their stories about the impact the high cost of prison phone calls have on their families.
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October 30, 2012
My Mom Is… A True Story by Jason Mewes
Actor, Jason Mewes reenacts the true story of his school project, "My Mom Is..." How hard is it for one kid to talk to his Mom when she's in jail? Watch to his story and participate in the campaign.
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October 15, 2012
The Right to Call Casa: Pablo Tapia
Pablo Tapia, Assembly of Civil Rights in Minneapolis Minnesota, talks about what the Campaign for Prison Phone Justice means for him and his family.
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October 12, 2012
Luisa’s Story: Predatory Phone Rates | Middle of Nowhere | Participant Media
Luisa's 14-year-old son was sentenced as an adult and sent to prison. Since then she has sent countless letters to him but can rarely hear his voice due to the predatory phone rates charged in the United States prison system.
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October 12, 2012
Middle of Nowhere: Make It Wright To Call Home—Petition the FCC
Ava DuVernay's Middle of Nowhere chronicles a woman's separation from her incarcerated husband and her journey to maintain her marriage and her identity. The Wright to Call Home campaign centers on urging the FCC to pass the Wright petition and make prison phone calls affordable for all families. It can cost a mom more than $18 for a 15-minute phone call with her son in prison and families are forced to pay these excessive rates or give up staying connected. Our communities urgently need federal oversight of interstate prison phone call rates.
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September 18, 2012
Just a kid
When I was 16 my dad was in prison. Without our calls, I wouldn't have known he missed us.
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August 31, 2012
Chairman Genachowski, pass the Wright Petition
Earlier this summer, we sat with Mrs. Martha Wright, of the Wright Petition, in her Northeast D.C. home and spoke with her about her decade-long struggle to win justice for prisoner families abused by telecommunication companies. Shocked by the exorbitant bills she was getting for accepting collect phone calls from a grandson in prison, Wright decided to fight back against big telephone.
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June 21, 2012
He could use my love and support
A caller describes the cost of the calls and her desire to help her family friends, but she cannot afford the cost of the calls. Twenty dollars does not last two phone calls. Why does it cost so much?
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July 8, 2010
Keeping in Touch
A caller from the United States Social Forum talks about the importance of keeping in touch with those in prison.
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