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 ...

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.

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

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 move suspends a 2024 FCC decision that capped the price of in-state phone calls at 6 cents minute for prisons and large ...

In 2021, Kentucky jails had an average cost of around $0.20 for both in and out-of-state phone calls per minute. FCC lowers cost of calls for inmates. What are the Fayette Co. Detention Center prices?

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; ...

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. Sign up here.

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 ...

Congress passed legislation in 2023 to give the FCC broad authority to cut inmate calls costs after caps set by the agency were reversed by the U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia in 2017.