{"id":2610,"date":"2013-11-21T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2014-09-24T12:33:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T16:33:44","slug":"drew-kukorowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/21\/drew-kukorowski\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting PPI board member: Drew Kukorowski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drew Kukorowski is an\u00a0attorney at the Council for Children\u2019s Rights. He graduated from University of\u00a0North Carolina School of Law and joined the <a href=\"\/directors.html\">PPI board<\/a> in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/drew_vignette_590w.jpg\" alt=\"Drew Kukorowski\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" class=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Drew Kukorowski delivering 36,690 petitions that we collected with SumOfUs to FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Why did you write your first report on the prison phone industry?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Drew Kukorowski:<\/i> After graduating from law school, I returned to work with PPI on the project to end <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\">prison gerrymandering<\/a>. During this time I became outraged that phone companies were colluding with state prison systems to rip off poor families. I saw a real need for a comprehensive policy paper, so in the evenings, on my own time, I wrote <a href=\"\/phones\/#price\">&#8220;The Price To Call Home: State-Sanctioned Monopolization In The Prison Phone Industry.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>What prompted the FCC to rule to regulate the industry<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>DK:<\/i> After 13 years, <span class=\"pullquote\">the FCC finally responded to the tidal wave of political pressure from families<\/span>, from advocates, from the public, from the media, and from members of congress.<\/p>\n<p><i>What are the next steps for the movement for fair prison and jail phone charges?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>DK:<\/i> We need to ensure that the FCC enforces its ruling, expands the regulation to apply to in-state calls, and closes the door on any loopholes that allow companies to charge unreasonable fees to deposit money, request refunds, or even just to have an account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drew Kukorowski, attorney at the Council for Children&#8217;s Rights, shares how he began working with PPI and why he joined PPI&#8217;s board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":["post-2610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-of-directors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}