New rules from the Federal Communications Commission are putting the brakes on the prison telecom industry’s exploitative practices.
The Slow Death of a Prison Profiteer: How Activism Brought Securus to the Brink
Last week, the nation’s largest prison and jail telecom corporation, Securus, effectively defaulted on more than a billion dollars of debt. The slow death of the largest player in this space is not accidental. It follows six years of intense advocacy to expose the vulnerability of the prison telecom industry’s business model on both ethical and economic grounds.