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Communication
Understanding access to internet, phones, mail, and video
- Average cost of a 15-minute call from a local jail by state, 2021 (Created: 2022)
- The highest cost of a 15-minute in-state call from a local jail (Created: 2022)
- Many jails are charging more for in-state calls than the FCC allows for out-of-state calls (Created: 2022)
- Three companies make up 88% of the jail and prison phone market (Created: 2022)
- Advocacy and regulation have brought down phone rates in prisons and jails (Created: 2022)
- Jail phone calls are often many times higher than the same call from the state's prisons (Created: 2022)
- Two-thirds of parents in state prisons have never had a visit with their child. What are the barriers to visitation? (Created: 2022)
- How do parents in state prisons maintain ties with their children? (Created: 2022)
- People in state prisons who received visitors were less likely to return to prison after release (Created: 2021)
- Most states fail to provide the bare minimum behind bars (Created: 2021)
- State of Phone Justice: The biggest priorities for prison and jail phone justice (Created: 2019)
- Average cost of a 15-minute call from a local jail by state, 2018 (Created: 2019)
- The highest cost of a 15-minute call from a local jail by state, 2018 (Created: 2019)
- Phone rates in prisons and jails, 2008-2019 (Created: 2019)
- How many times higher the typical jail phone call is in each state compared to the same call from the state's prison (Created: 2019)
- Corporate consolidation: How GTL and Securus came to dominate the prison and jail telecom industry (Created: 2019)
- The highest cost of a 15-minute call from a local jail by state (Created: 2019)
- Average rate of disciplinary infractions increased after in-person visits were eliminated (Created: 2018)
- Eliminating in-person visits did not result in a substantial drop in contraband (Created: 2018)
- Rate of assaults on staff increased after in-person visits were eliminated (Created: 2018)
- Rate of assaults increased after in-person visits were eliminated (Created: 2018)
- What guidelines do states have for regulating jail mail? (Created: 2016)
- Electronic messaging and incarceration: how two-way systems work (Created: 2016)
- Electronic messaging and incarceration: how inbound-only systems work (Created: 2016)
- Annual growth in Securus profits, 2009-2014 (Created: 2015)
- Blacks and Hispanics are less likely than Whites to have computers and high-speed internet access at home (Created: 2015)
- Older people have less access to computers and the internet at home (Created: 2015)
- Poor people have less access to high-speed internet and computers at home (Created: 2015)
- For families and facilities: It's all about the fees (Created: 2015)
- Single call programs steer consumers to high-cost low-commission calls (Created: 2015)
- Price Matters: Video visitation price vs. usage (Created: 2015)
- TurnKey video visitation process (Created: 2015)
- HomeWAV video visitation process (Created: 2015)
- Visual acuity is important for human communication (Created: 2015)
- Typical process of video visitation (Created: 2015)
- Eye contact is important for human communication (Created: 2015)
- Normal phone calls haven't cost $1/minute since 1950 (Created: 2014)
- Fees consume 38% of the $1 billion spent each year on calls from correctional facilities (Created: 2013)
