Calls in Virginia prisons are among the cheapest in the country, but activists say prices are ‘predatory’

The Federal Communications Commission voted this fall to hike rate caps for phone and video calls that incarcerated people and their families can be charged. It rescinded a reform implemented under the Biden administration.

While Virginia’s rates sit below those limits, prison reform advocates say communications costs are still too high. Dave Cantor has more.

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