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 ...

Hefty phone bills ... The FCC also plans to study video call quality issues. Congress passed legislation in 2023 to give the FCC broad authority to cut inmate calls costs after caps set by the ...

(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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - Hefty phone ... FCC also plans to study video call quality issues. Congress passed legislation in 2023 to give the FCC broad authority to cut inmate calls costs ...