Illinois State Rep. Carol Ammons (D-Urbana) — the politician who championed HB 6200, a bill that caps all calls from Illinois prisons to seven cents a minute — attended the signing of the bill into law with Wandjell Harvey-Robinson (right), whose parents were incarcerated when she was in the third grade.
Credit: Brian Dolinar
The Justice Department’s recent recommendation to end the use of private facilities for US citizens in federal prisons has been hailed as a victory by reformers, but the widespread privatization of everyday services in prison, like hygiene products, food, laundry and phone calls continues unchecked. Simple phone calls, something most of us take for granted — when made by an incarcerated person and often paid for by […]
