A proposed Missouri bill by State Senator Rusty Black would limit the rate inmates pay to make phone calls. SB50 states that correctional centers should provide offenders with reasonable access to ...
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 ...
An Aussie has shared their harrowing experience after receiving more than a dozen phone calls from a prisoner who is currently being held in a New South Wales jail.
Over 40 inmates at Neemka Jail went on hunger strike after their phone call privileges were reduced. Their protest was ...
One Friday night, TikToker @themrsw learned that her 16-year-old daughter received a phone call from an inmate at a state correctional facility. The phone calls kept coming until she eventually ...
BOSTON (SHNS) – Sheriffs want lawmakers to consider reining in unlimited free phone calls at county jails amid bulging costs and heightened demand on correctional officers to monitor those ...
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 ...
SHREVEPORT, La. - After years of paying excessive rates to speak by telephone with their family members in Louisiana prisons, families of Louisiana inmates will soon receive relief. Just and ...
Inmates in New York State’s prisons will no longer have to pay for phone calls in a new policy initiative announced Tuesday. Under the plan, which goes into effect Aug. 1, phone calls made by inmates ...