Move is latest attempt to reform overlooked corner of telecom worldOctober 1, 2015Regulators are taking aim at prison phone-call charges.The Federal Communications Commission has circulated to its members a proposal to impose strict rate caps on the amount telecoms charge for all phone calls-loca...
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Congress moving closer to reducing federal prison populationSen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., center, speaks about criminal justice reform, accompanied by a bipartisan group of senators, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. A long-awaited bipartisan proposal...
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By Michelle AndrewsSeptember 30, 2015Correctional facilities have to provide health services to people who are incarcerated, but that doesn't mean the care is free of charge. In most states, inmates may be on the hook for copayments ranging from a few dollars to as much as $100 for medical care, ...
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Pope Francis blesses an inmate at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Philadelphia in September.September 27, 2015Philadelphia - On his last day in the United States, Pope Francis offered hope to inmates inside this city’s largest prison, telling them “that confinement is not the same th...
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The U.S. incarceration problem is now the world’s to solve.By Baz Dreisinger an associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She is the founder of the Prison-to-College Pipeline program and the author of the forthcoming Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around...
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Inmates have holy ally in Pope FrancisSeptember 26, 2015PHILADELPHIA – Pope Francis will visit inmates at Philadelphia’s Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility on Sunday, September 27, before leaving the United States. The pontiff has made criminal justice one of his marquee messages, calling on ...
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Inmates at Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center sand a chair the prison will give to Pope Francs during his visit.By Tom MacDonaldFriday, September 25, 2015When Pope Francis visits the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility as part of his trip to Philadelphia, he will sit in a chair custom-...
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Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner Homer Bryson said corrections officials confiscated more than 7,000 cell phones from inmates last year. September 25, 2015 ATLANTA — Twelve people were indicted this week on suspicion of having roles in crime rings t...
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The Thirteenth Amendment forbade slavery and involuntary servitude, “except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”By Whitney Benns - The AtlanticSeptember 21, 2015Crops stretch to the horizon. Black bodies pepper the landscape, hunched over as they work the fie...