BOSTON (SHNS) – Anticipating that sheriffs might tell lawmakers Tuesday that their budgets are burdened by the cost of providing free phone calls to incarcerated people, a coalition that supports the ...

Thanks to policy changes in six prison systems and several dozen jail systems, families are talking more and saving money.

A push is growing in Massachusetts for reforms to a program that provides inmates with unlimited, free phone calls, an initiative that put Bay State taxpayers on the hook for about $12.5 million last ...

State regulators have permanently slashed the cost of intrastate jail phone calls, a move advocates say will finally ease a ...

"I can tell you that when the phone calls became free, it was a weight that was lifted off of her, and for sure, it was a ...

BROOME COUNTY, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) -Changes in nationwide standards have lead to an increase in what Broome County Jail inmates and their families have to pay to communicate with each other. The fee for ...