Regulations last checked for updates: Feb 09, 2026

Title 47 - Telecommunication last revised: Jan 30, 2026
§ 64.6030 - Incarcerated People's Communications Services interim rate caps.

(a) A Provider must offer each Incarcerated People's Communications Service at a per-minute rate. A Provider may also offer an Incarcerated People's Communications Service under one or more Alternate Pricing Plans, pursuant to § 64.6140.

(b) A Provider must not charge a per-minute rate for intrastate or interstate audio Incarcerated People's Communications Services in excess of the following interim rate caps:

(1) $0.09 per minute for each Prison;

(2) $0.08 per minute for each Jail having an Average Daily Population of 1,000 or more Incarcerated People;

(3) $0.10 per minute for each Jail having an Average Daily Population of between and including 350 and 999 Incarcerated People;

(4) $0.11 per minute for each Jail having an Average Daily Population of between and including 100 and 349 Incarcerated People;

(5) $0.13 per minute for each Jail having an Average Daily Population of between and including 50 and 99 Incarcerated People; and

(6) $0.17 per minute for each Jail having an Average Daily Population below and including 49 Incarcerated People.

(c) A Provider must not charge a per-minute rate for video Incarcerated People's Communications Services in excess of the following interim rate caps:

(1) $0.23 per minute for each Prison;

(2) $0.17 per minute for each Jail having an Average Daily Population of 1,000 or more Incarcerated People;

(3) $0.17 per minute for each Jail having an Average Daily Population of between and including 350 and 999 Incarcerated People;

(4) $0.19 per minute for each Jail having an Average Daily Population of between and including 100 and 349 Incarcerated People;

(5) $0.23 per minute for each Jail having an Average Daily Population of between and including 50 and 99 Incarcerated People; and

(6) $0.42 per minute for each Jail having an Average Daily Population of below and including 49 Incarcerated People.

(d) Providers may charge up to an additional $0.02 per minute above the audio and video Incarcerated People's Communications Services rate caps in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section to recover the costs that a Correctional Facility may incur in making Incarcerated People's Communications Services available.

[90 FR 56062, Dec. 5, 2025]
authority: 47 U.S.C. 151,152,154,201,202,217,218,220,222,225,226,227,227b,228,251,251,254,255,262,276,403,c,616,620,716,1401,unless; Pub. L. 115-141, Div. P, sec. 503, 132 Stat. 348, 1091; Pub. L. 117-338, 136 Stat. 6156
source: 28 FR 13239, Dec. 5, 1963, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 47 CFR 64.6030