{"id":5015,"date":"2016-12-08T16:12:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T20:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=5015"},"modified":"2021-03-15T16:52:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:52:44","slug":"phone_update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/08\/phone_update\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress and NPR tackle phone justice and video visitation this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a big week for the movement for telephone justice:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and U.S. Representative Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.) introduced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/114th-congress\/house-concurrent-resolution\/180\/text?r=1\">Concurrent Resolution<\/a> to address exorbitant prison phone rates between the imprisoned and their loved ones. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.booker.senate.gov\/?p=press_release&#038;id=504\">press release<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Rep. Tammy Duckworth (Senator-elect Duckworth, D-Ill.) introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/114th-congress\/house-bill\/6441\/text\">legislation to rein in the abusive video visitation industry<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161208003007\/http:\/\/duckworth.house.gov\/index.php\/media-center\/press-releases\/1005-new-duckworth-bill-aims-to-reduce-recidivism-rates-in-criminal-justice-system\">press release<\/a> )<\/li>\n<li>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/12\/05\/504458311\/video-calls-replace-in-person-visits-in-some-jails\">Video Calls Replace In-Person Visits In Some Jails<\/a>, Natasha Haverty covers the rise of the video visitation industry and the harm that comes from the industry&#8217; ban on in-person visitation for NPR&#8217;s <i>All Things Considered<\/i>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR covers video visitation, and reform legislation is introduced in Congress. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":["post-5015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phones","category-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015","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=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11760,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions\/11760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}