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| April 23, 2026

FCC Prison Phone Rate Caps 2026: What Changed and What It Means for Your Family

Published on April 23, 2026, by InmateAid Table of Contents Introduction What the FCC Does and Why It Matters The Rollercoaster: 2024 to 2026 The New Rate Caps — Effective April 6, 2026 Does This Affect Your Facility? What Has Not Changed What You Can Do Right Now What to...

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| July 31, 2015

Pell Grants to Be Restored for Prisoners - WSJ

July 27, 2015 by Josh Mitchell and Joe Palazzolo The Obama administration plans to restore federal funding for prison inmates to take college courses, a potentially controversial move that comes...
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| July 31, 2015

Obama’s Plan to Restore Pell Grants for Prisoners - WSJ

WASHINGTON-The Obama administration’s plan to restore funding for in-prison college programs won praise from inmate advocates Tuesday, alongside allegations that officials are ignoring the will of...
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| July 16, 2015

Barack Obama becomes first president to visit US prison

Obama toured the "B" block of El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in Oklahoma, where he met six inmates convicted of drug offenses. Nearly a quarter of the world's prison population...
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| July 13, 2015

Obama, Democrats and Republicans push for prison reform

A strange-bedfellows alliance of Republicans and Democrats led by President Obama is pushing to reform federal laws that have packed prisons with legions of aging, nonviolent drug dealers....
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| July 13, 2015

Obama to Visit Federal Prison

July 13, 2015 President Obama is set to tour Oklahoma’s El Reno Correctional Institution on Thursday, becoming the first sitting president to visit a federal prison, the White House said last...
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| July 13, 2015

Mexican Drug Boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman escapes from a maximum-security prison

JULY 13, 2015 ALMOLOYA DE JUÁREZ, Mexico - Mexico’s most notorious drug lord now has one more nefarious title: serial prison escapee. Authorities are scrambling to find Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman...
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| July 13, 2015

Obama commutes sentences of 46 convicts

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama cut the prison sentences of 46 non-violent offenders on Monday, including 14 who were serving life sentences, saying "their punishments didn't fit the...
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| June 29, 2015

Inmate David Sweat, New York Prison Escapee, Shot and Captured Near Canadian Border

Malone, New York -Three weeks after their stunning prison break, Richard Matt and David Sweat have been caught -- with one now dead, the other critically wounded. The 22-day manhunt for Sweat ended...
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