at the federal level, the fc krks regulates in trust state calling. if an inmate calls someone out of state, the fcc identifies a ceiling above which rates can not go. calls s made within california, will be regulated. the third thing that dictates inmate calling rate is the contract the city and county has with the phone caller and the rates were set that occurred in 2009. the sheriff's thinks that the rates are far too high and that inmate calls need to be provided as a price that is more in line with what his expectations are. >> is there a way to adjust the inmate welfare fund to reduce the price of calls. >> from a technical perspective, what happens is inmates purchase phone cards, and those phone cards are -- just like any other debit card you would use at any store in the outside world, so each inmate gets a phone call of $20, they plug in their pin number into their telephone and the calls are debited off so the revenue goes directly to gtl. what the department could contemplate is guy phone cards that can be distributed to inmates on a fair b