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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 11, 2020

A prison video visitation service exposed private calls between inmates and their attorneys

HomeWAV, a prison video visitation tech company, exposed thousands of phone calls between inmates and their families, but also calls with their attorneys that were supposed to be protected by...
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| October 11, 2020

California kept prison factories open. Inmates worked for pennies an hour as COVID-19 spread

Robbie Hall earned 60 cents an hour sewing masks at a factory in a women’s prison in Chino. She was hospitalized with a serious case of COVID-19 in May after an outbreak there. (Illustration by...
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| October 06, 2020

From prison to programming: How coding can help inmates find a path out of crime

Jason Jones spent nearly 14 years in prison. After learning to code while still incarcerated, today he uses his experience to teach others how coding can improve social mobility and reduce...
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| October 06, 2020

Federal prisons resume visitation in October, 7 months after COVID-19 forced suspension

Sept 1, 2020 By Kevin Johnson - USA Today The federal prison system, the largest in the country, is preparing to resume inmate visitation in October, seven months after social visits were suspended...
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| September 06, 2020

Telmate data breach leaked personal info for millions of prisoners

The unsecured database contained identifiable information of inmates and their contacts. September 5, 2020 By Mariella Moon Telmate, a widely used prison phone service, left millions of inmates’...
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| September 04, 2020

Bureau Of Prisons Announces Plans To Resume Social Visits By October

...with many new restrictions Sep 2, 2020 By Walter Pavlo - Forbes Federal prison visitation, when it resumes, is going to look a lot different than it did before COVID-19 halted the privilege on...
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| August 27, 2020

Georgia inmates credited for helping rescue a deputy who had a stroke

By Harmeet Kaur - CNN Wed August 26, 2020 A group of men incarcerated at a jail in Georgia are being credited with saving the life of a sheriff's deputy. Gwinnett County Sheriff's Deputy Patrick...
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| July 28, 2020

Major Inmate Call Service Providers Hit with Antitrust Class Action Over Alleged Single-Call Price Fixing

Albert et al. v. Global Tel*Link Corp. et al. - Three companies face a class action alleging they conspired to artificially inflate prices for single phone calls made by prison and jail inmates to...
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