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 ...

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 ...

Kelly Schaeffer worries there might come a time when she can't afford to talk to her teenage son in jail. The 44-year-old mother estimates she spends $100 a month for her son to call her every other ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MONROE — Jacob Schmitt used to spend hours every day waiting to call his wife. Prisoners at the Monroe Correctional Complex, where Schmitt is serving time for theft and burglary, used to have to line ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Jovaan Lumpkin entered the Connecticut state prison system in 2004, at age 17. In the ...

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 ...