FCC Draft Items on Securus Sale to SCRS, Enforcement Action Before Commissioners
An FCC draft order on the planned Securus sale to SCRS Acquisition and a draft enforcement action were sent to commissioners Oct. 6, according to the agency circulation list updated Friday. The commission and Securus, an inmate calling service (ICS)…
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provider, didn't comment. "I suspect we will now see Chairman [Ajit] Pai move quickly to approve the sale of his former client Securus," said Paul Wright, Human Rights Defense Center executive director, who recently told us he expected FCC action (see 1710060053) after Pai was reconfirmed by the Senate. "It is telling that while he promised to seek a solution to the market failure of high prison and jail phone rates there has been a deafening silence on what he actually plans to do." As the FCC considers "the billion dollar plus sale of Securus, the families of prisoners who actually pay the bills and make those obscene profits possible are still waiting for justice," Wright said: "They are the only group of people Chairman Pai excluded from the stakeholders in his statement on the need for ICS reform.”