According to the charging standard of 3 yuan/call in the first 8 minutes and 1 yuan/minute after 8 minutes, the charge for each call shall not exceed 10 yuan. Lanzhou Prison in Gansu Province also mentioned in the notice of introducing video family members' telephone interview that the prison does not charge any fees, and the expenses incurred are collected by the development service company, and the expenses incurred by the call are borne by the family members.
According to the incomplete statistics of China and Singapore. Yunnan, Anhui, Heilongjiang, Hubei and other provinces have all issued their own "Administrative Measures for Judicial Administration Remote Video Conference". The Measures for the Administration of Remote Video Conference in Yunnan Province and the Regulations on the Administration of Criminal Video Conference in Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Justice (Draft for Comment) both mentioned that "video conference is a project that benefits the people, and no unit or individual may charge any fees for any reason".
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Lawyer: Seeing relatives is a legal right. Xu Hao, a lawyer of Beijing Shi Jing Law Firm, said in an interview with Zhongxin.com that according to the law, criminals serving sentences in prison have the right to meet their relatives and guardians.
In order to solve the problem of meeting relatives of prisoners due to geographical, traffic, economic and health reasons, many prisons have opened remote video conferencing, but the fees are different.
For example, in 2022, Maoming Prison in Guangdong Province issued a notice that the official account of WeChat used the visual home phone system, saying that the fees generated were collected by the software developer and the prison did not charge any fees. According to the charging standard of 3 yuan/call in the first 8 minutes and 1 yuan/minute after 8 minutes, the charge for each call shall not exceed 10 yuan.
Lanzhou Prison in Gansu Province also mentioned in the notice of introducing video family members' telephone interview that the prison does not charge any fees, and the expenses incurred are collected by the development service company, and the expenses incurred by the call are borne by the family members. According to the incomplete statistics of China and Singapore. Yunnan, Anhui, Heilongjiang, Hubei and other provinces have all issued their own "Administrative Measures for Judicial Administration Remote Video Conference".