Washington Prison Phone Justice

Court temporarily blocks price cap on prison calls

This video shows the impact the cost of prison phone calls has on families. We're standing up for Washington Families - join us.

JOINT STATEMENT FROM FCC CHAIRMAN TOM WHEELER, COMMISSIONER MIGNON CLYBURN AND COMMISSIONER JESSICA ROSENWORCEL ON THE D.C. CIRCUIT’S DECISION RELATING TO THE FCC’S INMATE CALLING SERVICES RULES

Although the U.S. Court of Appeals granted a stay on FCC rules regarding rates and ancillary fees, safe harbor rates and an annual reporting requirement for inmate phone providers, the rate caps of .21 and .25 cents per minute remain in place. These new rates will become effective on February 11, 2014.

After years of discussing affordable inmate calling rates, the FCC prepares to take action on August 9th, 2013. - By Bobby Cervantes

It has been a decade since Martha Wright, a grandmother who led the campaign to reduce prison phone calls, first began the charge to change the prisoner telephone calling system in U.S prisons.

After a decade of high prison phone rates and the hardships they cause, Alex Friedmann, along with several other advocates, will lead a panel discussion of the problem and share a touching letter from a Washington State mother whose son is incarcerated in Alaska.

HRDC is excited to launch the Washington Prison Phone Justice Campaign -- demanding an end to unjust costs of calls from WA prisons, jails and other detention facilities

WA prisoners, families and advocates submitted comments to the FCC regarding the Wright Petition to cap the cost of interstate prison phone calls.

A mother of a former WA prisoner and plaintiff of Judd v. AT&T writes the FCC, asking for relief for out-of-state families of WA prisoners