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 ...

A 15-minute call to or from large jails, which now costs as much as $11.35, will cost 90 cents beginning next year. In small jails, the cost will fall from as high as $12.10 to $1.35.

FCC slashes cost of inmate phone calls. ... The Dispatch reported in May that Ohio has one of the nation’s highest costs for interstate calls to and from its prisons — $17.14 for a 15-minute ...

The FCC's decision eliminates or limits fees commonly tacked on by providers. It also caps the maximum cost of a 15-minute in-state or local call at $1.65 and lowers the per-minute rate.

Inmate phone call costs slashed by FCC. By David Shepardson Reuters; Jul 18, 2024 ... the cost of a 15-minute phone call will drop to 90 cents from as much as $11.35 in large jails.

News; Nation/World; 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 (CN) – The Federal Communications Commission plans to slash inmate calling rates that can make a phone call cost up to $14 per minute. Saying it has a mandate to ensure that phone call ...

The petition asking the FCC to regulate inmate phone call rates was filed in 2003 on behalf of families after a judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Martha Wright-Reed against a private prison company.

The FCC is considering rate caps and other changes to help families shouldering high costs for phone calls from prison inmates. FCC to consider limiting costs of prison phone calls - Los Angeles Times ...

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 ...