It costs me less than 10 cents a minute to call Switzerland. It costs inmates so crazy much, between the connecting fees and per minute charges, just to call home, that the FCC is actually taking a first step toward regulating this money-eating monstrosity. Families are already paying for necessary commissary items that should be provided for free.  The FCC needs to take the final step and just close down the industry that bleeds the poorest citizens dry; then they should require states to offer competitive bidding for phone companies Inside, just as they do Outside.

http://www.prisonpolicy.org/phones