by Cheryl Leanza | Oct 13, 2025 | Blog, Communications Justice for Incarcerated Persons, Featured, Open and Affordable Communications
The Federal Communications Commission issued a draft order on October 7, 2025, and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has announced he will hold a vote on the draft at the FCC’s open meeting on October 28, 2025. This draft is a dramatic departure from the FCC’s decision...
by Sara Cederberg | Sep 25, 2025 | Blog, Communications Justice for Incarcerated Persons, Featured, Open and Affordable Communications
For more than a decade, UCC Media Justice has worked alongside partners, advocates, and people of faith to end the exploitation of families with loved ones behind bars. Thanks to the bipartisan Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act—passed...
by Cheryl Leanza | Sep 15, 2025 | Blog, Communications Justice for Incarcerated Persons, Featured, Open and Affordable Communications
On September 15, UCC Media Justice helped organize a coalition letter almost 100 of faith and public interest groups urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to overturn its unjust and unlawful suspension of fair prison phone and video rates. This letter...
by UCC Media Justice | Jul 31, 2025 | Blog, Communications Justice for Incarcerated Persons, Featured, Open and Affordable Communications
Last night, UCC Media Justice joined a coalition of public interest groups that filed an Application for Review urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to overturn a recent decision by the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau that suspends the 2024 FCC rules...
by Cheryl Leanza | Jun 30, 2025 | Blog, Communications Justice for Incarcerated Persons, Featured, Open and Affordable Communications, Uncategorized
The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau just announced a unilateral delay in all rules implementing the Martha Wright Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act. This statement can be attributed to Cheryl A. Leanza, policy advisor...
by Cheryl Leanza | May 20, 2025 | Blog, Communications Justice for Incarcerated Persons, Open and Affordable Communications
What kind of company wants to keep their prices a secret? Usually, if they won’t tell you what their product costs, it’s a good bet that it costs too much. We’re unfortunately well-acquainted with another group of companies that don’t want to...
