A group of 17 Democrats penned a letter demanding that Senate leaders include a provision in the next coronavirus relief package to let prisoners make free video calls.

The Thursday letter detailed the exorbitant fees that can accompany phone calls and video calls from prison. A 15-minute, in-state phone call can cost an incarcerated person up to $25. Families of inmates disproportionately belong to minority racial groups and are more likely to be impoverished. The senators noted that one-third of such families admitted that they “went into debt in order to stay connected” with their loved ones.