Thread by @WorthRises

ANNOUNCEMENT! We just released two new tools for the fight for prison phone justice — a game-changing, real-time rate map and a national PSA featuring NBA coach and former player Caron Butler @realtuffjuice that reminds of the people behind the numbers. Let's #ConnectFamiles! 🧵

@realtuffjuice The PSA follows Euriya, one of the 1 in 29 children in the US with an incarcerated parent, as his family navigates the financial hardship of staying connected. The burden is too much for him and his mom, so he misses out on doing homework with dad and often hearing "I love you."

@realtuffjuice We're grateful to @realtuffjuice for lending his voice to this fight, to @NateParker & @NateParkerFdn for helping us tell this story through film, and to the dozens of directly impacted cast and crew who participated.

Watch and share the extended cut.

Euriya's family is one of many that face hardship at the hands of the predatory prison telecoms that charge egregious rates for calls — up to a dollar a minute. But rates vary widely and these corps have made it difficult to collect rate information at mass, making advocacy hard.

This game-changing tool centralizes real-time rate data for prison & jail calls. For the first time, advocates and decision-makers have access to important rate data that can help advance policies that create relief #ConnectFamilies.

Data tool: connectfamiliesnow.com/data

And we already have something to celebrate! Today's data reveals that prison phone call rates are⬇️36% since 2018, when we passed our first bill to make prison and jail calls free in NYC, thanks to the hard work of families and advocates in the prison phone justice movement.

But of course, there's still work to do to bring relief to all families with incarcerated loved ones. Head to ConnectFamiliesNow.com to watch the extended cut of the PSA, access the rate data tool, donate to keep this work going, and take action to #ConnectFamilies today.