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Biden just signed a bill to reduce the cost of Prison phone calls by a significant amount [1]. Here's more details on how excessive the charges were. https://h
by themitigating 4y ago
Biden just signed a bill to reduce the cost of Prison phone calls by a significant amount [1]. Here's more details on how excessive the charges were. https://harvardpolitics.com/jail-phone-calls/ https://harvardpolitics.com/jail-phone-calls/ . Is your argument that because the Democrats haven't tackled the issue with privatization of mail and/or haven't spoken out about it they don't care? Maybe they will, maybe not, at least they have done something.
All the sponsors of this bill are Democrats or independent. To be fair it was approved by voice vote so some number of Republicans might have been ok with it? (I'm not sure how that works)[2]
[1]"Biden signs a bill to fight expensive prison phone call costs."
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/01/1146370950/prison-phone-call-cost-martha-wright-biden https://www.npr.org/2023/01/01/1146370950/prison-phone-call-...
[2]https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1372341 https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1372341