{"id":1488,"date":"2014-02-03T14:46:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T18:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2015-10-04T17:34:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T21:34:25","slug":"ppi-sparks-new-york-times-column-phoning-from-prison-at-prices-through-the-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/03\/ppi-sparks-new-york-times-column-phoning-from-prison-at-prices-through-the-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"PPI sparks New York Times column &#8220;Phoning From Prison, at Prices Through the Roof&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/02\/your-money\/phoning-from-prison-at-prices-through-the-roof.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/newsthumbs\/nyt-2-2-14-250w.jpg\" alt=\"New York Times thumbnail\" width=\"250\" height=\"209\" class=\"reportcover right\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We asked <i>The New York Times<\/i> consumer protection columnist David Segel (AKA &#8220;the Haggler&#8221;) to look into the outrageous charges that families are forced to pay to speak on the phone with incarcerated loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>And he did! Peter&#8217;s letter and the Haggler&#8217;s investigation were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/02\/your-money\/phoning-from-prison-at-prices-through-the-roof.html\">printed in yesterday&#8217;s paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We asked The New York Times consumer protection columnist the Haggler to investigate the broken prison phone industry. He did! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[13],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}