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 ...

In this and other Texas prisons, fees inmates pay for phone calls will be reduced. (Maria Crane/The Texas Tribune, Maria Crane/The Texas Tribune) Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily ...

Updated 3:14 p.m. Thursday: South Dakota Department of Corrections released an updated memo Thursday on phone and tablet-based call limits for state prison inmates. According to the DOC memo, the ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- Harris County commissioners may lower the cost of phone calls from jail after a vote on Tuesday. County commissioners are expected to vote on a contract that officials ...

Keeping prison inmates in touch with their families is a key element in reducing recidivism and simply part of a humane incarceration policy — and those goals are certainly not mutually exclusive. It ...

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 ...

Inmate Larry Stone made enough money to post bond and get out of jail. July 28, 2011 — -- Some clever inmates at the Lake County Jail in Florida figured out a money-making scheme by allegedly ...

LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- Despite concerns over the costs of the program and how it will be funded, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a motion Tuesday to provide free phone calls for ...

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – Fees Texas inmates pay to make calls will be slashed under new Federal regulations approved this month. High rates that had averaged 23 cents a minute for Texas jail inmates have ...