Fearing the spread of coronavirus, jails and prisons remain on lockdown. Visitors are unable to see their loved ones serving time, forcing friends and families to use prohibitively expensive video ...

Sheriff John Montgomery of Baxter County, Arkansas, isn’t going to take it anymore—if by “it” you mean “having to offer lower phone call rates to incarcerated inmates.” Noting that such phone calls ...

Had it not been for police monitoring of a single jailhouse phone call, white supremacists in southeastern Virginia would almost certainly have killed any number of ...

The state’s highest court made clear this week that there’s nothing to prevent county sheriffs from continuing to charge often usurious rates for the phone calls that provide inmates their lifeline to ...

A federal rule prohibiting jail and prison phone companies from paying a commission to law enforcement has prompted the Baxter County sheriff to announce he will remove the phones inmates use to ...

The new contract with inmate phone service provider Consolidated Telecom, Inc., will start in February 2024 and replace the agreement Champaign County has had with Securus Technologies since 2018.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The South Carolina Department of Corrections shared a recent interaction between an inmate and a cell phone customer service agent after the inmate’s phone was disconnected.