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A new law aims to make prison calls affordable. The FCC must decide what that means.

by Kimberly Adams

May 31, 2023

The agency has more authority to regulate the cost of those calls, which could mean significant savings for families of the incarcerated.

While Congress gave the FCC authority to cap the cost of prison calls in 2014, that didn't apply to roughly 80% of calls made within states. Above, a bank of telephones at a detention facility in Virginia.

Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

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