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 ...

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

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 ...

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; ...

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 ...