The cost of a phone call from prison, however, can take your breath away. Phone calls between prisoners and their loved ones on the outside often represent the only contact inmates have with the world beyond prison walls. But high prison phone rates have dramatically restricted the amount of meaningful contact that prisoners can have with those who care about them. Prison phone regulations were able to take hold during the Obama Administration thanks to a 3-2 Democratic majority amongst the five FCC commissioners. One of the likely first acts of the new commission: Roll back the prison phone regulations set in motion by the former office.

Source: Forbes February 23, 2017 18:36 UTC