After months of fielding complaints for removing the service, Google is once again allowing Gmail users to make free telephone calls directly from their inbox, all without any kind of service contract ...

Starting Friday, Aug. 1, phone calls from New York state prisons will be free under a new agreement between the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) and telecom ...

It was a progressive masterstroke: give Massachusetts inmates unlimited, free phone calls. What could go wrong? Two years and $12.5+ million taxpayer dollars later, the answer is: plenty. Gov. Maura ...

The move will save the loved ones of the state’s more than 30,000 prisoners over $13 million a year, advocates say. By Samantha Latson New York will make phone calls free for incarcerated people ...

Brendan Carr, the F.C.C. chairman, cited security concerns in rolling back most of the lower costs he voted for last year. By Ben Blatt Most inmates in American prisons now have a personal tablet ...

Starting Friday, Aug. 1, phone calls from New York state prisons will be free under a new agreement between the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) and telecom ...

Thank you for covering the budget overruns of the county sheriffs in recent news stories (“Senators: Put lid on sheriffs’ spending,” Metro, Oct. 21; “Lawmakers eye funding cuts to sheriffs’ offices,” ...