New York City to make all calls from jail free [prisonpolicy.org]
Yesterday, the New York City Council made New York the first jurisdiction in the country to make telephone calls from its prisons and jails free . The city will not only give up the commission it currently makes on phone calls – it is going a step further and making the phone calls themselves free. This change will save the poorest families in the City of New York more than $8 million a year. In many prisons and jails, calls home from jail are very expensive, costing up to $1/minute .