The Federal Communications Commission voted this fall to hike rate caps for phone and video calls that incarcerated people ...

The Arizona Department of Corrections will digitize inmate mail, impacting tangible connections for incarcerated individuals ...

KY prison official resigned in 2023 amid probe into explicit inmate messages. TN corrections department hired her without checking KY disciplinary record. Official now oversees Nashville prison and ...

Over the past decade, dozens of states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons have contracted with private companies to provide their incarcerated populations with electronic tablets. These secure devices ...

This is part of Time, Online, a Future Tense series on how technology is changing prison. Just a few companies control prisoners’ access to phone and video calls, educational resources, data storage, ...

In a 15-second TikTok video, a blonde woman in a white T-shirt appears. She asks for men or women to reach out to her if they’d “like to talk” and, at the end, blows a kiss to the camera. Over the ...

The Florida Department of Corrections defends its decision to turn to a company called JPay to digitize inmate mail by arguing the delivery system is crucial to preventing the flow of dangerous ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has ordered a leading prison banker to pay $6 million for siphoning off taxpayer-funded benefits and forcing recently incarcerated individuals to pay hidden ...

Julie Jones, then the Florida Department of Corrections Secretary, visits with Wakulla Correctional Institution inmates on March 8, 2016, during a visit to the Betterment Dorm at the Crawfordville, ...

At a time when leaving the house and meeting other people in person is impractical, we're more reliant than ever before on electronic communication, and the small numbers of tech companies that have a ...

Inmates at several West Virginia prisons are getting free electronic tablets to read books, send emails, and communicate with their families—but there's a catch. Any inmates looking to read Moby Dick ...