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California Slashes High Call Rates in Prisons and Jails
Loaded on Oct. 1, 2021
by Chuck Sharman
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2021, page 48
Filed under:
Telephone Rates.
Location:
California.
by Chuck Sharman
On the heels of a May 2021 decision by federal regulators that sharply lowered rates prisoners and their loved ones pay for interstate calls, the California Public Utilities Commission (CAPUC) adopted a rule on August 19, 2021, which takes a hatchet to rates on intrastate calls—the lion’s ...
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