A proposed Missouri bill by State Senator Rusty Black would limit the rate inmates pay to make phone calls. SB50 states that correctional centers should provide offenders with reasonable access to ...

In this and other Texas prisons, fees inmates pay for phone calls will be reduced. Credit: Maria Crane/The Texas Tribune Fees Texas inmates pay to make calls will be slashed under new federal ...

WASHINGTON — Hefty phone bills for inmates in U.S. prisons and jails were slashed by the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday, affecting about 2 million incarcerated persons and their ...

The Federal Communications Commission voted last week to end what it called exorbitant phone and video call rates that have hindered incarcerated people from communicating with their families for ...

DARTMOUTH, Mass. (WPRI) — Inmates in Massachusetts are currently allowed to make free unlimited calls. But Bristol County Sheriff Paul Heroux is expressing concern over the costly service. The ...

MARQUETTE — Mackinac County Sheriff Edward M. Wilk is warning residents of scammers who use the phone asking those receiving calls to pay bond for an inmate. “Sheriff Wilk would like to remind ...

After the first free call required by law, inmates in the Wake County Jail who want to reach the outside world must call collect, and the county is collecting thousands on those calls. After the first ...

DARTMOUTH, Mass. (WJAR) — In 2023, Massachusetts passed the No Cost Communication law allowing inmates to make an unlimited amount of calls from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. The law was passed with the hope to ...

In what some are calling the first tax cut of the Spitzer administration, New York is slashing the cost of phone calls between prison inmates and their families, friends, and lawyers by more than half ...

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – Fees Texas inmates pay to make calls will be slashed under new Federal regulations approved this month. High rates that had averaged 23 cents a minute for Texas jail inmates have ...