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 ...

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 ...

FCC slashes cost of phone calls for inmates, capping decadeslong effort July 21, 2024 Updated Sun., July 21, 2024 at 9:21 p.m. In 2012, Martha Wright-Reed sits in her Washington, D.C., home near a ...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has decided to let prisons and jails keep charging high prices for ...

July 18 (UPI) --The Federal Communications Commission has capped the rates inmates pay for phone and video calls, officials announced Thursday. The new rules will affect about 2 million inmates, and ...

Under the final rules, the cost of a 15-minute phone call will drop to 90 cents from as much as $11.35 in large jails. In small jails it will cost $1.35 instead of $12.10.

Under the final rules, the cost of a 15-minute phone call will drop to 90 cents from as much as $11.35 in large jails. In small jails it will cost $1.35 instead of $12.10.

The FCC voted to lower the cost of calls for inmates. The Fayette County Detention Center lowered the costs earlier this year. ... Tablets are free to all inmates; Phone calls are $0.06 per minute; ...

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 ...

FCC slashes cost of phone calls for inmates, capping decades-long effort. Under the new rules, the cost of a 15-minute call to or from large jails will drop from as much as $11.35 to $0.90.

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