Public Service Commission Chair will speak at Press Club | Events

Public Service Commission Chair Foster Campbell will speak at the Baton Rouge Press Club on Monday, Dec. 10. Campbell will discuss his concerns about the fee for telephone calls to inmates in Louisiana prisons being 15 times the going rate. The PSC will vote Wednesday, Dec. 12, on a measure from Campbell to reduce the cost of prison phone conversations by 25 percent.

Press Club meets on Mondays at De La Ronde Hall, which is located at 320 Third St. in downtown Baton Rouge. Lunch, which is served at 11:30 a.m., is $12 for members and $15 for nonmembers. The public is invited, but only members of the Press Club and the news media are allowed to ask questions during the question-and-answer portion of the program.

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