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| April 23, 2026

FCC Prison Phone Rate Caps 2026: What Changed and What It Means for Your Family

Published on April 23, 2026, by InmateAid Table of Contents Introduction What the FCC Does and Why It Matters The Rollercoaster: 2024 to 2026 The New Rate Caps — Effective April 6, 2026 Does This Affect Your Facility? What Has Not Changed What You Can Do Right Now What to...

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| September 06, 2012

Prison Slang 101: Common Words & Meanings - Yahoo

Jennifer Waite, Yahoo! Contributor  March 12, 2009 If you've ever sat through an episode of Dateline where suspects are being interrogated, you have undoubtedly noticed some who are obviously not...
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| September 06, 2012

The Cons Guide to Prison Slang

Banged up - locked in a cell. Baron - prisoner who controls illicit articles through bullying and other exploitative practices of the prisoners. Beef - Criminal charges, i.e. "I...
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| September 06, 2012

A Glossary of Prison Slang - MotherJones.com

-By Jen Quraishi  -  July/August 2008 Issue SOME PRISON SLANG: bo-bos: prison-issued tennis shoes bone yard: trailers used for conjugal visits brake fluid: psychiatric meds such as liquid Thorazine...
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| September 06, 2012

A Glossary of Prison Terms and Slang

Abel Assessment for Sexual Interest (Abel Screen): An assessment instrument that gives an objective measurement of deviant sexual interests. Able-bodied offender: An individual in the custody...
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| September 06, 2012

Gun/Drug Crime Lands First-timer a 162 Year Sentence

By Tom Brown  Reuters – Tue, July 3, 2012 MIAMI  - Quartavious Davis is still shocked by what happened to him in federal court two months ago. "My first offense, and they gave me all this...
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| September 06, 2012

Prison time: How long is long enough? - Cal Berkeley

Jonathan Simon, professor of law  8/17/12 It is hard to say whether they are the worst crimes. They are the crimes that horrify the most. A baby-sitter, for no apparent reason, strangles the 15...
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| September 06, 2012

Reducing Unjust Cocaine Sentences - NY Times

June 29, 2011 The 1986 federal drug law that punished people caught with crack cocaine far more severely than those caught with powder cocaine was a disaster on many levels. It undermined faith in...
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| September 06, 2012

The Catchall Fraud Law that Catches too Much - Fortune

By Roger Parloff, January 6, 2010 (Fortune Magazine) -- When it comes to fighting white-collar crime, the sharpest arrow in the federal prosecutor's quiver is a law most non-lawyers have never...
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