The cost of phone calls will drop dramatically for incarcerated people under new rules that federal regulators approved Thursday, concluding a decades-long effort to provide relief to the nation ...

July 18 (UPI) --The Federal Communications Commission has capped the rates inmates pay for phone ... Congress allowed the FCC to limit the cost of phone and video calls in 2023 after caps that ...

If it wasn't for their phone calls ... the high calling rates for inmates. That's about to change. Federal regulators took new steps on Thursday to slash the cost of calls in prison, which ...

The FCC voted 2-1 during an emotional meeting to cap interstate phone rates ... a 15-minute call has cost $17, and numerous fees have been tacked onto call charges. Inmates' families, many of ...

In a release, the FCC said reducing inmate phone-call costs will benefit society: “Studies make clear that inmates who maintain contact with family and community while in prison have a reduced ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The Federal Communications Commission plans to slash inmate calling rates that can make a phone call cost up to $14 per minute. Saying it has a mandate to ensure that phone call ...

(CN) – Siding with Wisconsin and a coalition of other states seeking to recover costs ... a 2015 FCC rule banning local jails and state prisons from charging inmates more than $0.11 per minute for ...

The cost of phone calls will drop dramatically for incarcerated ... concluding a decades-long effort to provide relief to the nation’s 2 million inmates and their families.

The new rules will affect about 2 million inmates, and mean the cost of a 15-minute phone call will drop from as much as $11.35 in some cases to 90 cents in large jails and from $12.10 to $1.35 in ...