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 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 ...

'Huge Step': FCC Slashes Costs of Prison Phone Calls High rates and fees meant calls could cost as much as $14 a minute. Inmates talk on pay phones at a jail in Phoenix on Jan. 31, 2008.

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.

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FCC votes to slash cost of prison phone calls. ... Currently, calls to inmates can cost as much as $14 a minute. Under the new plan, calls will cost no more than $1.65 for 15 minutes.

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 ...

Siding with Wisconsin and a coalition of other states seeking to recover costs, the D.C. Circuit ruled that the Federal Communications Commission cannot cap the amount states and cities can charge ...

AUSTIN – Federal regulators on Thursday capped the rates for phone calls from jails and prisons across the country, a step that could affect thousands of Texas families with incarcerated loved ...

The FCC is considering rate caps and other changes to help families shouldering high costs for phone calls from prison inmates. FCC to consider limiting costs of prison phone calls - Los Angeles Times ...

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 ...