[Imc-members] Fwd: Check Us Out in the Washington Post!

[carol ammons]

Shared Progress, Please read below.



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December 3, 2012

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<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=40ednHamEkQhADkvP8E4EGZPCPUukG7B>
Dear Carol Ammons,

The powerful work of the Campaign for Prison Phone
Justice<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fItyhBbCzFYI%2Fq%2FzpuLBvWZPCPUukG7B>
has
made it to the Washington Post.  Yesterday Justin Moyer published an
amazing piece about the sky-high rate of prison phone calls, citing Steven
Renderos of Center for Media
Justice<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=VFLl5ykDucbTigqcD%2FINVmZPCPUukG7B>
.

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 that Martha Wright filed a lawsuit against the private telephone
companies that were forcing her to pay these predatory rates back in
2001<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8vNGLxsXf%2BeluqG%2F480inGZPCPUukG7B>.
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.

"I thought they had just dropped it and forgot about it," she says in the
article.

Read the editorial<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GscDCeEkJC%2FjRTLDKfK7u2ZPCPUukG7B>and
then add your voice to the chorus of people asking the FCC to end the
predatory prison phone rates, by joining our national holiday
"letter-to-the-editor"
action.<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NGZ9urJDPaJmsFgl%2BFq%2BGWZPCPUukG7B>
We're
closing in on a decade, let's keep pushing to make sure the FCC does the
(W)right thing.

In Solidarity,

Center for Media Justice


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