OKLAHOMA CITY – It seems that an ongoing dispute over the price of inmate phone calls has come to an end. In 2015, the Federal Communication Commission announced an order that would have put a ...

Under the final rules, the cost of a 15-minute phone call would drop to 90 cents from as much as $11.35 in large jails, while in small jails, it would cost $1.35 instead of $12.10.

In meetings and letters to the Federal Communications Commission, the industry leaders threatened legal action if the rules to cap inmate phone rates are not changed before a vote next week.

The Federal Communications Commission is about to face another lawsuit, this time over a vote to cap the prices prisoners pay for phone calls. Yesterday's vote came after complaints that inmate ...

A federal court has partially struck down a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule that capped the rates for inmate phone calls.The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said in 2-1 decision that the… ...

To make matters worse, earlier this year, the DC Circuit Court overturned the FCC’s 2013 and 2015 reforms, in part because of the new presidential administration’s refusal to fully defend the ...

Facing a legal challenge from the inmate phone industry, the FCC today voted to raise the price cap on what companies can charge for calls from jails and prisons. The FCC will allow slightly ...

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 new rules were crafted by the FCC and are designed to crack down on what prison inmate advocates call abusive and predatory practices by phone companies. For over a decade, many prison inmates ...

WASHINGTON — A decade after families of prison inmates asked for action, the Federal Communications Commission agreed to limit how much companies can charge for phone calls made from behind bars.

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 ...