Giving Compass' Take:

• Peter Wagner and Alexi Jones provide a list of top priority prison and jail phone justice reforms needed in 40 states. 

• What do prison and jail phone calls cost in your state? How can funders work to increase access to communication for prisoners and inmates? 

• Read a criminal justice reform guide for donors. 

It can be hard to figure out where to start to improve phone justice in each state, especially in the states where legislators, regulators, or individual correctional facilities have already instituted partial reforms. For that reason, we’ve re-organized our national survey of in-state phone rates in to this handy map showing the biggest remaining issues in each state:

Read the full article about prison and jail phone justice priorities by Peter Wagner and Alexi Jones at Prison Policy Initiative.