Starting Friday, Aug. 1, phone calls from New York state prisons will be free under a new agreement between the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) and telecom ...

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 ...

Two lawsuits filed by a civil rights group allege that county jails in Michigan banned in-person visits in order to maximize revenue from voice and video calls as part of a “quid pro quo kickback ...

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 ...

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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 ...