“For decades, the cost of an ever-expanding suite of invasive surveillance services has been passed on to incarcerated people and their loved ones.”
The FCC more than halved per-minute phone caps and banned every fee, deposit fees included. Worth Rises puts the savings at $500 million a year across about 1.4 million incarcerated people. The big cut comes from one change. Families no longer pay for the surveillance of their own calls. Aventiv has effectively defaulted on $1.3 billion of debt and the rules killed ViaPath’s $1.5 billion refinancing, which tells you exactly where the money came from.