The Federal Communications Commission is ending a system that can cost inmates up to $17 a minute – cutting calls to between 11 and 22 cents a minuteFederal regulators moved to cap the costs of prison phone calls on Thursday in a move to discontinuance a system that has driven the price of a call as high as $17 a minute.
At a assembly in Washington the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to cap rates on inmate calls made from one state to another. Prison calls gain been driven sky high by fees charged by telephone companies, commissions and fees charged by prisons to monitor calls and for other services.
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Source: theguardian.com