When I was 16 my dad was in prison. Without our calls, I wouldn’t have known he missed us. I was sixteen when my father went to prison on a felony charge. I had known that he was a cocaine addict from the age of about 7 or 8, but I never imagined it would […]

During the month of August, phone justice delegations in West Virginia, New York and California met with staff from the offices of Sen. Rockefeller, Rep. Clarke and Rep. Lee to secure letters addressed to FCC Chairman Genachowski.

Check out the response from FCC Chairman Genachowski to our Twitter action.

Join us as we introduce the newest member of the Community Restoration Campaign T.E.A.M. Unity in Newport News, VA

On September 4, Center for Media Justice along with a group of organizations representing the civil rights, criminal reform, legal and public interest sectors met with the Chairman of the FCC.

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 […]

A delegation of organizations from the New York area met with Rep. Yvette Clarke (Brooklyn) to discuss the high cost of receiving a phone call from a prison, jail or detention center.

A delegation of organizations from Charleston met with Senator Jay Rockefeller’s staff to discuss the high cost of receiving a phone call from a prison, jail or detention center.

A delegation of organizations from the California Bay Area met with the Deputy District Director of Congresswoman Barbara Lee to discuss the high cost of receiving a phone call from a prison, jail or detention center.

Recently, the FCC has received hundreds of letters from prisoners across the country asking Chairman Genachowski for action on the Wright petition, which calls on the agency to provide a solution for exorbitant prison phone rates.