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 ...

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 ...

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 — Hefty phone bills for inmates in U.S. prisons and jails were ... 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 ...

(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 new rules cap the costs of phone calls ... according to the FCC. The Fayette County Detention Center took the opportunity to improve inmate phone systems earlier this year, prior to the ...

News Nation/World 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 ...

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 ... concluding a decades-long effort to provide relief to the nation’s 2 million inmates and their families.