1/4 Some big news in the legislature relating to the cost of phone calls and communications for incarcerated people! Our reporting on the profiteering by ViaPath and significant questionable spending of commissions at Dauphin County Prison has led to the introduction of 2 bills.

2/4 Last week, Sen. Cappelletti announced she planned to introduce a bill that would require ALL jails, prison AND youth detention centers provide phone calls free of charge to incarcerated people. https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/Legis/CSM/showMemoPublic.cfm?chamber=S&SPick=20230&cosponId=41161

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