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 ...
The Department of Corrections has implemented a new phone service for offenders incarcerated in several Montana correctional facilities that cuts in half the cost of phone calls placed to families and ...
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 ...
Unisys will replace the Bureau of Prisons’ inmate telephone system with a solution based on its hardware and Intel telephony products. The phone replacement work is part of the Inmate Telephone System ...
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has started looking into how expensive it is for inmates at Canadian jails. Now, there’s an independent class action lawsuit ...
Bell operated the Offender Telephone Management System from 2013 to 2021 — which allowed inmates to only place collect calls — at a flat rate of $1 for local calls, but about $1 per minute plus a ...
A US detention center that offered inmates phone service to the outside world was so infuriated by a request from the Federal Communications Commission to lower its rates that it announced it would ...
The Federal Court has certified a class action lawsuit against the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) following allegations of unauthorized interceptions of inmate communications, including ...
SEDGWICK COUNTY, Kan. (KSNW) — Major changes are coming to how inmates at the Sedgwick County Adult Detention Facility communicate with the outside world. Beginning Monday, June 16, the jail will roll ...
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is looking into the rates for phone calls at correctional facilities across the country, spurred by high long-distance charges that ...
This claim concerns unauthorized interceptions by CSC through the Inmate Telephone System, "black phones," and during visits, in violation of the Charter and the CLPA. A "black phone" refers to a ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Telephone companies and California counties have made hundreds of millions of dollars from some of the state's poorest people through high, unregulated phone rates for calls from ...