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Phone calls from prison used to cost 11 cents a minute. Now through Securus, they’re cheaper, but the connection — a “lifeline” for many — is poor. MONROE — Jacob Schmitt used to spend hours every day ...

The cost of the first minute of a phone call from jail got less expensive this spring in six Wisconsin counties. In late May, Chippewa, Green, La Crosse, Rusk, Sheboygan and Waupaca counties all ...

DALLAS, July 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Securus Technologies today announced that it has provided more than 20 million free phone calls to incarcerated Americans and their families since the onset of ...

DALLAS, Sept. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Securus Technologies today released its weekly update detailing the total number of free calls, video connections, and JPay stamps it has provided since the ...

Agency officials only asked in December that Securus Technologies Inc., a city contractor that manages the jail phone system, do two audits of mistakenly recorded calls after learning the Bronx ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Jovaan Lumpkin entered the Connecticut state prison system in 2004, at age 17. In the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... People in Denver’s jails will no longer have to wait their turn to call family members after the sheriff’s department introduced hundreds of tablet computers ...

A new report alleging a city contractor wrongfully recorded phone calls between inmates in New York City jails and their legal representatives has prompted an investigation by city officials. Securus ...

Thousands more confidential calls than previously known were recorded between city jail prisoners and their lawyers by a contractor operating the Department of Correction phone system, a new audit ...

It’s a relatively simple proposition: Good corrections policy that helps those behind bars maintain family ties can lead to better outcomes — like lower recidivism rates and more successful reentry to ...