The FCC has voted to cut in half the usurious fees telecom firms charge for family calls to prisoners: https://boingboing.net/2024/07/19/fcc-votes-to-end-prison-phone-rate-robbery.html
Better late than never, but prices should never have been allowed to escalate for so many years
ffs, if there's *one thing* the internet has done it's massively cut the price of long distance communications
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