Update 12/28: The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Prison Phone Kickbacks has been issued by the Federal Communications Commission. See attached. Comments will be due in approximately 60 days.

Update 11/15: Today FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn announced that Chairman Julius Genachowski has begun circulating a further notice of proposed rulemaking for a vote. This marked the first step forward in a ten- year effort to make the price of inter-state calls from prison affordable.