They often have to save enough money just to pay for a few minutes of phone time. The new rules are based on the service providers' costs and eliminate any hidden fees and arbitrary charges that ...

The cost of phone ... FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, who approved the decision, wrote in a statement that he nevertheless worried that the caps weren’t high enough to offset some security costs ...

Last year, Wisconsin, Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Nevada brought a legal challenge in the D.C. Circuit targeting a 2015 FCC ... inmate calling systems, or ICS, ...

Hefty phone bills ... The FCC also plans to study video call quality issues. Congress passed legislation in 2023 to give the FCC broad authority to cut inmate calls costs after caps set by the ...

FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel called these rates "unconscionable" in a statement, noting that sometimes a single phone call costs the equivalent ... improve inmate mental health, and increase ...

Related U.N. human rights agency decries Alabama's use of nitrogen hypoxia in execution 3 states, D.C. report first inmate deaths ... allowed the FCC to limit the cost of phone and video calls ...

The cost of phone calls will drop dramatically for incarcerated ... A 15-minute call to or from large jails, which now costs as much as $11.35, will cost 90 cents beginning next year.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hefty phone ... The FCC also plans to study video call quality issues. Congress passed legislation in 2023 to give the FCC broad authority to cut inmate calls costs after ...

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 ...