by Sara Cederberg | Apr 24, 2025 | Blog, Communications Justice for Incarcerated Persons, Open and Affordable Communications
UCC Media Justice has joined a coalition of allied organizations in submitting a legal brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in support of the FCC’s historic order to lower the cost of calls and video communications for incarcerated people. UCC...
by Sara Cederberg | Apr 11, 2025 | Blog, Communications Justice for Incarcerated Persons, Open and Affordable Communications
UPDATE: On Thursday, April 17, the FCC GRANTED the request we made in the letter we filed last week! Talton’s highly redacted request for waiver from the new rate caps and consumer protections for incarcerated communications services will be paused indefinitely. With...
by Cheryl Leanza | Apr 1, 2025 | Blog, Communications Justice for Incarcerated Persons, Open and Affordable Communications
Lower rates for incarcerated people are here at last! April 1, 2025 marks an important day in the quest for communications justice. The FCC’s new rules apply to most of the country today. The United Church of Christ Media Justice Ministry (UCC Media Justice) has...
by Sara Cederberg | Oct 26, 2024 | Blog, Communications Justice for Incarcerated Persons, Open and Affordable Communications
Last week, the United Church of Christ Media Justice Ministry, aided by Georgetown Law’s Communications and Technology Law Clinic, filed comments in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Incarcerated People’s...
by Sara Cederberg | Aug 13, 2024 | Blog, Communications Justice for Incarcerated Persons, Open and Affordable Communications
Today UCC Media Justice announced the release of its new report: Ensuring Access to Quality Communications for Incarcerated People: Options for Advocates and State Legislators. This report is the next step in UCC Media Justice’s ongoing work to help incarcerated...
by Cheryl Leanza | Jul 24, 2024 | Blog, Communications Justice for Incarcerated Persons, Open and Affordable Communications
Last week, the Federal Communications Commission voted to adopt an order that will lower rates across the country for phone calls between incarcerated people and their loved ones and establish rate caps for carceral video communications for the first time. So much of...
