Please check out these stories about our campaign and related issues below. You can also look for us on twitter by searching for #njphonejustice or following the national campaign at #phonejustice.
Campaign for Prison Phone Justice, March 17, 2016: FCC’s New Rules Will Provide Families Relief – Despite Prison and Jail Phone Companies’ Efforts to Delay Justice
Prison Policy Initiative, March 17, 2016: What Families Can Expect from the New FCC Rules
The Bergen Dispatch, February 24, 2016: Freeholders Pass Resolution Lowering Phone Rates For Inmates At Bergen County Jail
NJ Legislative Majority Office Press Release, December 14, 2015: Assemblyman Johnson’s Press Release Supporting A4576
Truthout, October 19, 2015: The FCC Aims to Lower Cost of Prison Phone Calls in Historic Vote
FCC Commissioner Clyburn and Senator Booker’s OpEd in Huffington Post, October 13, 2015: The Unnecessarily High Cost of Inmate Calling Charges Is An Injustice
WNYC, May 8, 2015: Phone Rates in NJ Prisons Cut in Half
Prison Legal News, May, 2015: New Jersey, Ohio DOC’s Significantly Reduce Phone Rates
Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman’s Press Statement, April 10, 2015: Watson Coleman Supports Lower Rates for Prison Phone Calls
New York Times, March 30, 2015: The High Cost of Calling the Imprisoned
Trib Total Live, PA, November 26, 2014: Prison Phone Cost to Drop 70% in PA
Media Action Grassroot Network, November 21, 2014: FCC Takes Aim at Sky-High Prison Phone Rates
Senator Cory Booker’s Press Statement, October 17, 2014: Sen. Booker Applauds FCC Attention to Inmate Calling Rates
Prison Legal News, October 2014: Prison and Jail Phone Reforms Needed in New Jersey
Star Ledger Editorial, May 22, 2014: NJ should Investigate Cost of Prison Phone Calls
The Nation, May 15, 2014: Dialing with Dollars: How County Jails Profit From Immigrant Detainees
Communications Daily, May 5, 2014: Cases in New Jersey and Alabama Seek Caps on Price of Inmates’ Intrastate Calls
El Diario NY, May 1, 2014: Piden abaratar llamadas desde las prisiones
New Jersey Star-Ledger, April 30, 2014: Coalition says NJ inmates pay ‘exorbitant’ phone rates for local calls
The Bergen Record, April 30, 2014: Ex-inmates ask NJ to lower jail phone charges
The Asbury Park Press/AP, April 30, 2014: Ex-inmates ask NJ to lower jail phone charges
New Jersey Star-Ledger, Letters to the Editor, March 28, 2014: Punishing inmates with phone bills: Letter
The Bergen Record, Editorial Page, March 14, 2014: Phone equity; Inmates need contact with families
The Bergen Record, March 11, 2014: Feds lower rates for inmate phone calls
New Jersey Star-Ledger, February 22, 2014: State officials lower phone rates for NJ inmates
USA Today, August 9, 2013: FCC Slashes What Prisoners Pay for Phone Calls
Assemblywoman (now Congresswoman) Bonnie Watson Coleman’s Star Ledger OpEd, April 5, 2013: NJ Prisons Price Gouges Inmates for Telephone Use
Media Action Grassroots Network Blog, February 1, 2013: Prison Phone Justice Advocates Tell Commissioner Clyburn: The Time is Now