Showing posts with label telephone costs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label telephone costs. Show all posts

Monday, April 1, 2013

NDOC earns big money from prisoner calls to their loved ones

ATTENTION ALL NV-CURE Members and Supporters:
      
NV-CURE has now acquired, through the assistance of one of our members, the Contract between Embarq and NDOC for telephone services to prisoners.

Under that Contract, the NDOC received 54.2% of the profits from the telephone calls and is guaranteed a minimum of 2.4 MILLION DOLLARS each year from that contract. That is $200,000.00 per month.

Prisoners, their friends and families, are paying that money, plus the phone company profits (another $200,000.00 per month in phone company profits), EVERY MONTH. That is outrageous!

We need to take action to change this situation. Please provide your comments and suggestions to NV-CURE
 
It is time for us to work together to change this situation.  
 
Thank you for your help. 
Struggle in Solidarity.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Please Sign petition against Predatory Phone Prices

Received per email:
Here is an online petition urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to pass the Wright Petition, CCDocket No. 96-128, that would end exorbitant prison phone rates:

http://www.takepart.com/actions/end-predatory-prison-phone-rates

The FCC can address this nationwide problem by passing the Wright Petition (CC Docket No. 96-128) and setting standards to ensure consumers who must use prison phone services have options for communications affordability and access.

The Wright Petition was a set of recommendations filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2003 by a group of prisoners, family members, and their allies seeking federal action to stop the prison phone overcharging. Many organizations contacted the FCC to urge the agency to accept the recommendations of the Wright Petition.

The Wright Proposal refers to an additional set of filings made to the FCC in 2007, after the agency still hadn’t acted on the original petition. The petitioners sent an alternative proposal to the FCC, asking for reasonable limits on the rates a company can charge for an interstate call from prison and cheaper debit calling options. They are still waiting for a response.

Timeline

On February 16, 2000, the Wright v. CCA complaint was filed in the D.C. District Court.

On August 22, 2001, District Judge Gladys Kessler referred the case to the Federal Communications Commission, under the doctrine of primary jurisdiction.

On October 31, 2003, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a petition for rulemaking with the FCC. The petition sought restructuring of long distance inmate calling services to introduce competition.

In March of 2007, CCR and its partners filed an alternative rulemaking proposal requesting that the FCC establish benchmark rates for all interstate inmate calling services no higher than $0.20 per minute for debit calling and $0.25 per minute for collect calling.

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