Thousands of jails and prisons across the United States use a company called Securus Technologies to provide and monitor calls to inmates. But the former sheriff of Mississippi County, Missouri, used ...

An inmate talks on the phone at the Albany County Correctional Facility on Thursday in Colonie. An inmate talks on the phone at the Albany County Correctional Facility on Thursday in Colonie. A phone ...

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 ...

Public defenders filed a lawsuit against the New York City corrections department alleging that recording of calls by Securus Technologies violates rights of inmates and other callers. Securus is also ...

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 ...

Securus Technologies, the company that runs Oklahoma’s prison phone systems, dropped prison phone calls from 14 cents a minute to 6 cents a minute following an FCC order from January 1st. But in late ...

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.

As of April 1, inmates in the Baxter County jail will no longer have telephone access to call family or friends. The sheriff’s office says the change is necessary due to “adverse regulation” enacted ...

Almost nobody outside of the Kentucky Department of Corrections has heard about how several hundred prison inmates hacked their state-issued, for-profit computer tablets to create more than $1 million ...