Thousands of jails and prisons across the United States use a company called Securus Technologies to provide and monitor calls to inmates. But the former sheriff of Mississippi County, Missouri, used ...

An inmate talks on the phone at the Albany County Correctional Facility on Thursday in Colonie. An inmate talks on the phone at the Albany County Correctional Facility on Thursday in Colonie. A phone ...

A federal rule prohibiting jail and prison phone companies from paying a commission to law enforcement has prompted the Baxter County sheriff to announce he will remove the phones inmates use to ...

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 ...

As of April 1, inmates in the Baxter County jail will no longer have telephone access to call family or friends. The sheriff’s office says the change is necessary due to “adverse regulation” enacted ...

Public defenders filed a lawsuit against the New York City corrections department alleging that recording of calls by Securus Technologies violates rights of inmates and other callers. Securus is also ...

At least 14,000 recordings of attorney-client phone calls from jails and prisons across the country were leaked from a Dallas-based phone service provider, a year after a group of Austin lawyers sued ...