Families with incarcerated members can face paying as much as $2.40 a minute and $17 for a 15-minute call to their loved ones. But now Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler wants to cap the rates for all types of phone calls made to prisons to make them “just, reasonable, and fair,” including local, long-distance, and international calls.
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