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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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| October 05, 2015

Cornell Prison Education Program Receives $1 Million

By MAXWELL DOPSCH OCTOBER 4, 2015 The Cornell Prison Education Program received a $1 million grant from The Mellon Foundation on Thursday, which will allow the program to double its presence in...
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| October 02, 2015

FCC Wants to Cap Cost of Phone Calls to and From Prison

Regulators are taking aim at prison phone-call charges. The Federal Communications Commission has circulated to its members a proposal to impose strict rate caps on the amount telecoms charge for...
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| October 02, 2015

Senators reach deal to reduce prison time for some offenders

WASHINGTON -- Prospects are improving for long-stalled legislation to reduce mandatory sentences for non-violent drug offenders and other measures to reduce the federal prison population. A...
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| September 30, 2015

Even In Prison, Health Care Often Comes With A Copay

By Michelle Andrews September 30, 2015 Correctional facilities have to provide health services to people who are incarcerated, but that doesn't mean the care is free of charge. In most states,...
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| September 30, 2015

Pope Francis visits a Philadelphia correctional facility

Pope Francis blesses an inmate at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Philadelphia in September. September 27, 2015 Philadelphia - On his last day in the United States, Pope Francis...
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| September 30, 2015

Prison: America’s Most Vile Export? - The Atlantic

Behind the bars of a prison in Brazil, the federal agent on duty sidled up to me. “You’re getting a good report, yes?” he said, smiling at my notebook. “You have many supermaxes in America. Many...
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| September 26, 2015

Pope to push for prison reform

September 26, 2015 PHILADELPHIA –  Pope Francis will visit inmates at Philadelphia’s Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility on Sunday, September 27, before leaving the United States. The pontiff...
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| September 26, 2015

The pope's chair made in Philadelphia prison workshop

When Pope Francis visits the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility as part of his trip to Philadelphia, he will sit in a chair custom-made by inmates. Alexander Davis is part of the prison team...
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