The FCC has approved new rate caps for Incarcerated People's Communication Services (IPCS), undoing key 2024 reforms and reducing financial relief for families by an estimated $215 million annually, while allowing providers to recapture surveillance costs, impose facility fees, and adjust rates for inflation.| Davis Vanguard
Advocates and families are urging the FCC to maintain affordable prison communication rates, as the FCC is set to consider weakening rate caps established in 2024 under a 2023 federal law.| Davis Vanguard
Bianca Tylek has raised concerns about the expansion of private prison corporations profiting from the Trump administration's immigration enforcement policies, which has led to longer detention periods, the reopening of previously closed facilities, and the influx of new vendors in the immigration detention space.| Davis Vanguard
A coalition of public interest groups has filed an Application for Review with the FCC, urging them to reverse the Wireline Competition Bureau's suspension of 2024 rules aimed at lowering the cost of phone calls from prisons.| Davis Vanguard
