The Federal Communications Commission will no longer enforce a rule capping the price of prison phone calls, according to an announcement made Monday by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.
The move suspends a 2024 FCC decision that capped the price of in-state phone calls at 6 cents minute for prisons and large jails and 7 cents per minute for medium-sized jails. Before the decision, a 15-minute phone call could cost as much as $11.35 at large jails in some states. Under the 2024 rules, those same phone calls would cost 90 cents.
A buddy of mine is incarcerated. When he went in in 2017 I bought email tokens, they were $1 each. I am about to use my last token and I worry how much it will be now.
I thought the Ohio Department of “Rehabilitation” and Correction was bad. A whole dollar for a plain text email of very limited length in the 21st century. What a shame.