by Sara Cederberg | Dec 23, 2025 | Blog, Communications Justice for Incarcerated Persons, Featured
On October 28, the FCC voted 2-1 to reverse the fair rate caps for prison phone and video calls that Congress mandated through the Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act. The decision will cost families hundreds of millions of dollars more each year...
by Cheryl Leanza | Oct 28, 2025 | Blog, Communications Justice for Incarcerated Persons, Featured
The FCC voted 2 to 1, over the eloquent and detailed dissent of Commissioner Gomez, to increase rates paid by incarcerated people their families and loved ones by even more than originally proposed. This change gives even more to greedy monopoly phone companies while...
by Cheryl Leanza | Oct 13, 2025 | Blog, Communications Justice for Incarcerated Persons, 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, 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, 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, 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...
