Communication
Understanding access to internet, phones, mail, and video
- 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)
- Average cost of a 15-minute call from a local jail by state, 2021 (Created: 2022)
- How do parents in state prisons maintain ties with their children? (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)
- 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)
- Phone rates in prisons and jails, 2008-2019 (Created: 2019)
- The highest cost of a 15-minute call from a local jail by state, 2018 (Created: 2019)
- Average cost of a 15-minute call from a local jail by state, 2018 (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)
- Rate of assaults increased after in-person visits were eliminated (Created: 2018)
- Rate of assaults on staff increased after in-person visits were eliminated (Created: 2018)
- Eliminating in-person visits did not result in a substantial drop in contraband (Created: 2018)
- Average rate of disciplinary infractions 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 inbound-only systems work (Created: 2016)
- Electronic messaging and incarceration: how two-way systems work (Created: 2016)
- Annual growth in Securus profits, 2009-2014 (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)
- Blacks and Hispanics are less likely than Whites to have computers and high-speed internet access 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)
- Eye contact is important for human communication (Created: 2015)
- Typical process of video visitation (Created: 2015)
- Visual acuity is important for human communication (Created: 2015)
- TurnKey video visitation process (Created: 2015)
- HomeWAV video visitation process (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)
Events
- June 7, 2024:
Research Director Wendy Sawyer will take part in a panel discussion during the Association of Health Care Journalists conference. The panel, Incarceration as a public health threat, will focus on the ways mass incarceration harms the health of not only incarcerated people but their communities as well.
Communication Director Mike Wessler will also be in attendance for journalists who want to connect.
If you’re a journalist who would like to meet with either, please send us a message.
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