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Colorado prison inmates make $5M in phone calls a year. It's a budget buster
From their prison cells, Colorado inmates can make unlimited phone calls on state-issued tablets with taxpayers increasingly ...
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A new rule slashed how much prisons can charge for phone calls. Louisiana is challenging it.
The new rates vary by facility size and type. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola—and at all other state ...
Fees for Inmate phone calls could be limited by bill
A proposed Missouri bill by State Senator Rusty Black would limit the rate inmates pay to make phone calls. SB50 states that correctional centers should provide offenders with reasonable access to ...
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The Connecting Families Campaign aims to make calls from prison free
Providing phone and video calls from prison is a billion-dollar industry, with incarcerated people footing the bill. WISDOM aims to change this by making phone and video calls from prison free in ...
BBC apologises for calling Hamas hostages prisoners
The BBC has apologised after a presenter said Israeli hostages held by Hamas were “prisoners”. Nicky Schiller, an anchor on ...
Protesters call for murder charges in fatal beating of Robert Brooks at Central NY prison
Multiple corrections officers violently beat Brooks on Dec. 9 in the infirmary at Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County, repeatedly punching and kicking him in the groin, abdomen, face and back ...