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 ...

Ohio inmates will pay less for interstate phone calls they make as a result of action by the Federal Communications Commission to cap what it labeled the ... FCC slashes cost of inmate phone calls.

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.

'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.

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.

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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. July 20 ...

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’s 2 ...