Inmate Advocates Oppose GTL, State Petitions for FCC Stay of New ICS Order
The Wright Petitioners urged the FCC to deny Global Tel*Link's request for a stay of an August order raising inmate calling service rate caps without restricting site-commission payments to correctional authorities (see 1609020028). GTL isn't likely to prevail on the…
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merits of a legal challenge to the order and wouldn't suffer irreparable harm absent a stay, said the inmate family advocacy group in opposition posted Thursday in docket 12-375, after similar filings against Securus and Telmate stay requests. State and sheriff interests more recently sought a stay (see 1609060072), which the Wright Petitioners also opposed in a Friday filing.