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| Gouged in prison no more |
| By .latimes.com/news |
| Published: 08/15/2013 |
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After nearly a decade of inaction, the Federal Communications Commission is finally stepping in to regulate how much telephone companies may charge for interstate calls made by prison and jail inmates and immigration detainees. That's a welcome move that will put an end to an unfair practice that allowed telephone companies to gouge inmates and their families. Under the new regulations, which were announced late last week, telephone providers may only charge up to 21 cents for a debit or prepaid call within the United States, and up to 25 cents for domestic collect calls made by inmates. That is a huge improvement over the old system, under which telephone companies were free to set rates without any federal oversight. In some cases, a 15-minute call from prison could cost as much as $17 or more. As The Times' Ricardo Lopez reported, that is more than 10 times the average per-minute rate paid by most phone customers. Read More. |
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