The Trump administration’s attempt to censor late-night entertainment is an abuse of power, and the FCC’s threat to revoke broadcast licenses based on political viewpoints is a clear violation of the First Amendment.
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.
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.
Worth Rises has criticized the FCC’s proposal to increase the phone call rate cap for incarcerated people, arguing that it will result in a loss of $215 million in annual relief for incarcerated people and their families.
Nearly 15,000 individuals and over 100 organizations are urging the FCC to reinstate caps on prison phone rates after the agency suspended protections earlier this summer.
Worth Rises, a nonprofit organization, has criticized the Federal Communications Commission for delaying the implementation of new rules capping phone rates for incarcerated individuals, and is instead rewarding the prison telecom corporations and their profit-sharing partners.
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