"The High Cost of Calling the Imprisoned" can cost as much as $12.95 the $1.2 billion US prison phone industry technically buying reported last month concession fees update on the status of an FCC investigation charge you to make a phone call concession fees prison phone calls update on the status of an FCC investigation The High Cost of Calling the ImprisonedMarch 30, 2015 Image concession fees recent article "The High Cost of Calling the Imprisoned," $1 a minute $1 a minute $1.2 billion US prison phone industry The New York Times ^ KASIE CAMPBELL as much as $1.22 a minute phone charges New York Times reported earlier this year update on the status of an FCC investigation phone charges notoriously expensive predatory vendors broader $1 a minute upwards of $460 million annually phone charges billion-a-year prison phone industry as much as $1.22 a minute According to the New York Times update on the status of an FCC investigation New York Times the $1.2 billion US prison phone industry prison telephone system reported last month technically buying phone charges profit off exhorbitant phone call rates $1 a minute