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Dear Carol Ammons,<br>
<p>The powerful work of the <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fItyhBbCzFYI%2Fq%2FzpuLBvWZPCPUukG7B" target="_blank">Campaign for Prison Phone Justice</a> has made it to the Washington Post. <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=VFLl5ykDucbTigqcD%2FINVmZPCPUukG7B" target="_blank">Yesterday Justin Moyer published an amazing piece about the sky-high rate of prison phone calls, citing Steven Renderos of Center for Media Justice</a>.</p>
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<p>The cost of staying connected to a loved one behind bars is too high. Companies like Securus and Global Tel Link charge as much as $20 for a 15-minute long distance phone call. It's because of these outrageous charges <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8vNGLxsXf%2BeluqG%2F480inGZPCPUukG7B" target="_blank">that Martha Wright filed a lawsuit against the private telephone companies that were forcing her to pay these predatory rates back in 2001</a>. Her lawsuit was eventually passed on to the Federal Communications Commission in the form of a proposal called the Wright Petition, nearly a decade later, Mrs. Wright is still waiting for justice.</p>
<p>"I thought they had just dropped it and forgot about it," she says in the article.</p>
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<p><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GscDCeEkJC%2FjRTLDKfK7u2ZPCPUukG7B" target="_blank">Read the editorial</a> and then add your voice to the chorus of people asking the FCC to end the predatory prison phone rates, <span><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NGZ9urJDPaJmsFgl%2BFq%2BGWZPCPUukG7B" target="_blank">by joining our national holiday "letter-to-the-editor" action.</a></span><span> We're closing in on a decade, let's keep pushing to make sure the FCC does the (W)right thing.</span></p>
<p>In Solidarity,</p>
<p>Center for Media Justice</p>
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