1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act of 2019 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Prison, jails, and detention centers in the United States have unique telecommunications needs due to safety and security concerns. (2) Unjust and unreasonable charges negatively impact the safety and security of communities in the United States by exacerbating recidivism by damaging relationships between incarcerated people and their support systems. (3) It is the policy of the United States to ensure that all people in the United States, including anyone who pays for communications with incarcerated people via telephone and advanced communications, are afforded just and reasonable charges for all communications services. (4) The current correctional facilities communications market suffers from market failure. Among other issues, consumers cannot choose among competing providers, which produces locational monopolies and monopoly profits at the expense of rate-payers. (5) Charges for communicating with individuals detained in prisons, jails, and detention centers have been shown to be unjust and unreasonable as a result of industry practices and lack of competition. (6) Unjust and unreasonable charges extend to telephone and advanced communications services and to both intrastate and interstate communications. (7) Mrs. Martha Wright-Reed of Washington, DC, led a campaign for just calling rates for incarcerated people for over a decade. Mrs. Wright-Reed was the lead plaintiff in Wright v. Corrections Corporation of America, CA No. 00–293 (GK) (D.D.C. 2001), which ultimately led to the Wright Petition at the Federal Communications Commission, CC Docket No. 96–128 (Nov. 3, 2003). Mrs. Wright-Reed became involved, when, as a grandmother, she was forced to choose between purchasing medication and communicating with her incarcerated grandson. Mrs. Wright-Reed passed away on January 18, 2015, before fully realizing her dream of just communications rates for all