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.

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.

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 ...

A congressional coalition urged the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday to heed a D.C. woman's request to reduce the cost of telephone calls by inmates throughout the United States.

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 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 ...