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.

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.

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 ...

At large jails, 15-minute phone calls can cost more than $11 but the new will will lower that to just 90 cents. At a small jail, a 15-minute phone call that would cost more than $12 will be ...

Republican attorneys general from 14 U.S. states, led by Arkansas and Indiana, have filed suit to challenge the Federal Communications Commission's decision to impose a cap on the amount prisons ...

The FCC voted last Thursday to approve regulations, to take effect next year, that cap the price of inmate phone and video calls at prices as low as 5 cents per minute.

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.

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 ...