July 14, 2021 By Meg Kinnard COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Federal regulators are giving state prisons across the country more technological options to combat contraband cellphones, which prison officials have long said represent the greatest security threat behind bars....
Articles
-
-
Shelby County Detention Center Prisoner beaten in Kentucky jail because he'd dated a guard's wife is awarded $2.1 million July 12, 2021 By Andrew Wolfson - Louisville Courier-Journal LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A man who was thrown in jail in Shelby C...
-
A prison inmate makes one of her daily allotment of six phone calls at the York Community Reintegration Center in Niantic, Connecticut. By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN Tue June 22, 2021 A bill in Connecticut makes calls from prison free for the inmates and t...
-
A previous prosecutor had decided not to charge the legendary comic, and he relied on that move to speak freely and give incriminating statements. June 30, 2021 By David K. Li - NBC News The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the sexual assault conviction of Bi...
-
Joel Caston won the race for advisory neighborhood commissioner of a district where he'll oversee the Harriet Tubman Women's Shelter and D.C. Jail — where he is an inmate. Joel Caston, winner of the Advisory Neighborhood Commission 7F07 election seat that represents D.C. Ja...
-
Inmates won't get sentence reduction under the First Step Act By Lawrence Hurley Mon, June 14, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that potentially hundreds of low-level crack cocaine offenders cannot benefit under a 2018 federal law ...
-
"Dropping the soap will not get you rampantly taken from behind." by Stephen LaConte - BuzzFeed People who have been incarcerated are sharing what movies get wrong about prisons and jails — and it's a fascinating perspective that you don't often get to hear. &...
-
June 8, 2021 By Kristina Sgueglia and Kelly McCleary, CNN The New York City Board of Correction voted unanimously Tuesday to end solitary confinement in city jails, according to a statement from Mayor Bill de Blasio's office. The vote by the independent oversight ...
-
May 20, 2021 By Margaret Harding McGill - Axios Media Incarcerated people and their families pay high rates to talk by phone in part because the deals phone companies cut with prisons and jails drive the prices up — and the Federal Communications Commission is looking to low...