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Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty

Families of Prisoners and Long-Distance Calling

FCC considers limiting costs of long-distance calls for families of prisoners in Ohio, By Stan Donaldson, February 12, 2013, Cleveland Plain Dealer: “The price of long-distance calls for the families of inmates inside Ohio prisons could be coming down this year. The Federal Communications Commission has been looking into the calls’ cost in part to make it easier for prisoners and their families to keep in contact and continue to forge family bonds — bonds experts say are needed to help inmates re-enter society when they are released…”