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. On December 28, 2012, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to address the long-standing issue of high prison telephone rates. […]

Host Gloria Taylor Edwards & C0-Host Shirley T. Burke on WCLM 1450 AM. Guest commentators Terry Dysick, of Guidance, Inc and Keith Wm. DeBlasio, of Smart on Crime Solutions. The topic: The U.S.Incarceration Issues/The Business of Incarceration.

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. Take action: http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6220/c/1313/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=10784

My boyfriend has been incarcerated for about 20 years now. We’ve known each other for 13 of those years. I am very familiar with the collect calls and how expensive they can be. I was spending 200-300 a month before. Now they do the prepaid calling and it’s really no better. I have heard and […]

Melissa shares her experience with the impact of prison phone calls on her life during her husband's seven years of incarceration.

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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STOP THE OBVIOUS BUREAUCRATIC LOOP HOLE EACH STATE HAS DEMONSTRATED THEY WILL EXPLOIT AND TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF!!!! How could you as a national regulator NOT intervene when each and every single state has taken advantage of, exploited, and monopolized on the obvious loophole and conflict of interest that is created by allowing the states […]

THE ARMSTRONG HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR CAN ONLY SING AT CARNEGIE HALL MAR 1-4 IF THE COMMUNITY RALLIES AND HELPS THEM GET THERE. YOUR HELP IS NEEDED!!

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