New litigation suggests prison phone companies have incentivized the elimination of in-person visits at prisons to spike their own profits. Reading time 3 minutes Two lawsuits filed by an activist ...

New York City has built a massive unconstitutional database of recorded phone conversations between jailed suspects and people on the outside — with the ability to track and sort them by the sound of ...

Two lawsuits filed this week accuse Michigan sheriff's offices of colluding with large prison telecom companies to end face-to-face jail visitations and then price gouge families who are forced 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 suits contend that two counties entered into agreements with telecommunications companies that would bring more money because of increased use of phone calls and electronic messaging. By Aimee ...

In a hyper-connected world where digital tools are essential, the nearly two million incarcerated individuals in the U.S. face a stark reality. Access to technology is limited due to decades of ...