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.

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, ...

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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. July 20 ...

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 ...

July 18 (UPI) --The Federal Communications Commission has capped the rates inmates pay for phone and video calls, officials announced Thursday. The new rules will affect about 2 million inmates, and ...

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 ... A 15-minute call to or from large jails, which now costs as much as $11.35, will cost 90 cents beginning next year.