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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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| June 09, 2021

New York City to end solitary confinement in its jails

June 8, 2021 By Kristina Sgueglia and Kelly McCleary, CNN The New York City Board of Correction voted unanimously Tuesday to end solitary confinement in city jails, according to a statement from...
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| May 25, 2021

The prison phone kickback game

May 20, 2021 By Margaret Harding McGill - Axios Media Incarcerated people and their families pay high rates to talk by phone in part because the deals phone companies cut with prisons and jails...
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| May 25, 2021

FCC reduces out-of-state prison phone rates

But it still has little authority to regulate in-state calls May 20, 2021 By Makena Kelly The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously Thursday to lower some of the rates incarcerated...
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| April 14, 2021

Inmate #61727-054 Bernie Madoff, Ponzi schemer dies in prison at 82

April  4, 2021 Associated Press Bernie Madoff, the financier who pleaded guilty to orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history, died in a federal prison early Wednesday, a person familiar...
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| April 11, 2021

Thousands of Low-Level U.S. Inmates Released in Pandemic Could Be Headed Back to Prison

Kendrick Fulton, who was released to home confinement due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, poses for a photo at his sister’s house in Round Rock, Texas, U.S., April 8, 2021. He is...
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| March 29, 2021

Former prisoners struggle to re-enter society. What happens when society moves online?

Many of the social services and job programs that former prisoners rely on to achieve re-entry into their communities are inaccessible without a comprehensive knowledge of the internet. After...
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| March 14, 2021

Prisoner in solitary since Whitey Bulger's murder speaks out: 'I'm an innocent man'

Sean McKinnon told NBC News he doesn’t understand why he’s still being kept in the “hole” two years after the Boston crime boss was killed. By Rich Schapiro March 14, 2021 One of the inmates sent...
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| March 13, 2021

Restoring Pell Grants—And Possibilities—for Prisoners

March 11, 2021 By Clint Smith - Staff writer at The Atlantic During the winter months, the small classroom smelled of wood and heat. Three rows of desks faced the door, and before class began I...
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