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 ...

In a release, the FCC said reducing inmate phone-call costs will benefit society: “Studies make clear that inmates who maintain contact with family and community while in prison have a reduced ...

If it wasn't for their phone calls ... the high calling rates for inmates. That's about to change. Federal regulators took new steps on Thursday to slash the cost of calls in prison, which ...

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 ...

(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 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.

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 ...