Prison Policy Initiative surveyed the cost of phone calls in jails and prisons across the United States, finding low-cost phone calls are the exception and not the norm.

A report from the Prison Policy Initiative surveyed the cost of phone calls in jails and prisons across the United States. Low-cost phone calls are the exception, not the norm. While a few states have calls as cheap as 1 or 2 cents per minute, most jails charge 10 times that number.

Pennsylvania, while not one of the worst states, nonetheless lags behind many other states, including its neighbors.