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On average, most phone calls from jail will cost anywhere from $1 to $2 per minute for a collect call. So a 15-minute phone call could cost upwards of $15 to $30. The FCC put a cap on how much a phone company can charge when a call is made from a jail. The FCC stated that a long-distance phone call could not be charged more than $0.25 per minute. So, using that 15-minute phone call above, the costs cannot be more than $3.75. According to a NYTimes.com article, the average family could pay anywhere from $2.36 to as much as $17 for a 15-minute call.
For over a decade, many prison inmates in both state and federal facilities have paid significantly higher rates to make interstate phone calls than people outside of correctional facilities. According to the FCC, some prison inmates have had to pay as much as $17 for a 15 minute phone call. The new rate caps, which were passed by the agency last fall under the leadership of acting FCC Chair Mignon Clyburn, impose a limit of 25 cents per minute for debit calling and 21 cents per minute for collect calling.