> This research won't matter for prisoners in the US. From the link: > This year California became the second state in the nation, and the largest to date, t

> This research won't matter for prisoners in the US. From the link: > This year California became the second state in the nation, and the largest to date, to mandate free calls in state prisons. It's news that directly contradicts you, not research. I think this is a HN headline auto-edit that impairs understanding, sadly: "California’s free prison calls are repairing estranged relationships and aiding rehabilitation" - removing "California's" and changing "are repairing" to "boost" significantly changes what it means.