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The Shadowy Industry Dedicated to Squeezing Every Last Penny Out of People in Prison
Slate via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThis is part of Time, Online, a Future Tense series on how technology is changing prison. When it...
South Dakota’s prison tablet provider dinged for data breach by Federal Trade Commission
Argus Leader via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe company that gave electronic tablets to South Dakota prison inmates under a contract with the...
Prison Phone Company Leaked User Data and Didn’t Tell Them, FTC Says
Futurism via Yahoo News· 7 months agoCalling Card A prison phone company is in trouble with the feds after not only improperly securing...
California's free prison calls are repairing estranged relationships and aiding rehabilitation
LA Times via Yahoo News· 11 months agoCalifornia is the second state to mandate free calls in state prisons. The move is restoring frayed...
People in Florida prisons will get free calls for good behavior in new program
Orlando Sentinel via Yahoo News· 12 months agoORLANDO, Fla. — The Florida Department of Corrections plans to allocate $1 million to a new program...
Prison Phone Companies Involved in Scheme to Ban In-Person Jail Visits, Lawsuit Says
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 3 months agoTwo lawsuits filed by an activist organization allege a conspiracy between county governments in...
Lawsuits: St. Clair, Genesee counties conspire with telecom firms to gouge inmate families
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFor about the last five months, Katie Tanton said she's been making weekly treks to the St. Clair...
What 24 Hours Looks Like in Three Prisons
Slate via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThis is part of Time, Online, a Future Tense series on how technology is changing prisons. We asked people in three states to keep 24-hour tech-use...
South Dakota DOC has collected $1.25 million from inmates for calls, messages since 2021
Argus Leader via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe state prison system collected at least $1.25 million in fees from inmates and their families for phone and messaging services in the three years leading up to this month’s sudden shutdown ...
Lawsuits Allege Michigan Sheriffs Colluded To End In-Person Jail Visits and Price Gouge Families for...
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 3 months agoTwo class-action lawsuits say Michigan counties take cuts of the exorbitant costs of inmate phone...