Poor Ajit Pai, He was the FCC chairman under Trump, and he made it his special project to allow predatory prison telephone companies to charge families $14 a minute to speak to their incarcerated mothers and fathers. When Biden was elected, Pai made a hasty exit to be among his kind in the sleazy world of private equity, It took a few years, but the FCC has finally hung up on prison phone profiteers by unanimously voted to slash the outrageous rates incarcerated people and their families have been forced to pay for basic communication. — Read the rest
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