The Prison Telecom Free-For-All is Over
New rules from the Federal Communications Commission are putting the brakes on the prison telecom industry’s exploitative practices.
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Dana Floberg
The Slow Death of a Prison Profiteer: How Activism Brought Securus to the Brink
On the hook to repay $1.3 billion of debt this year, the nation’s largest prison telecom company, Securus, is on the verge of bankruptcy. Its failure would represent a remarkable victory for advocates—and a potential beginning of the end for the industry as we know it.