Fcc Republicans Force Prisoners and Families to Pay More for Phone Calls

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FCC Republicans voted to allow higher rates for prison phone calls, sparking criticism from advocates for prisoners' rights and sparking debate on the ethics of profiting from incarceration.

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josefritzishere

2 months ago

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This is pretty offensive. Is the purpose cruelty or provocation?

toomuchtodo

2 months ago

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Cruelty. It's always the cruelty.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelt... | https://archive.today/NjiSx

mieses

2 months ago

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list one form of punishment that is not cruel

fragmede

2 months ago

fining people a fine that can afford while still impacting their lifestyle negativity enough that they actually notice, without forcing them to go hungry or homeless.

OutOfHere

2 months ago

It's just plain money-grubbing.

JohnTHaller

2 months ago

Cruelty. The motivating force of the modern Republican party is identify the "other" and then hurt them.

It's also to add more bad noise to try to distract from the major damage they're doing. They've specifically outlined this. Overwhelm the "enemy" - in this case non-MAGA - with bad stuff so they can't focus on anything.

frob

2 months ago

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LovingIT

2 months ago

This can be avoided by not Crime'ing

autoexec

2 months ago

Another squeeze on the budgets of the American family to further enrich the already wealthy. They just can't stop making life in the US more and more expensive for the average person. Conveniently incarceration rates are going up so there will be more Americans behind bars.

spwa4

2 months ago

This is sad. Hopefully that there is a cap at all still improves matters compared to the situation before the limits existed.

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