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FCC reduces out-of-state prison phone rates

But it still has little authority to regulate in-state calls May 20, 2021 By Makena Kelly The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously Thursday to lower some of the rates incarcerated people and their families pay to speak over the phone. For jurisdictional reasons,...

Inmate #61727-054 Bernie Madoff, Ponzi schemer dies in prison at 82

April 4, 2021 Associated Press Bernie Madoff, the financier who pleaded guilty to orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history, died in a federal prison early Wednesday, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. Madoff died at the Federal Medical Center...

Thousands of Low-Level U.S. Inmates Released in Pandemic Could Be Headed Back to Prison

Kendrick Fulton, who was released to home confinement due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, poses for a photo at his sister’s house in Round Rock, Texas, U.S., April 8, 2021. He is wearing an ankle monitor that he must charge nightly in order to comply with the...

Former prisoners struggle to re-enter society. What happens when society moves online?

Many of the social services and job programs that former prisoners rely on to achieve re-entry into their communities are inaccessible without a comprehensive knowledge of the internet. After spending decades in prison, Renaldo Hudson had to learn how to use a smartphone.Alex...