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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
To talk to your incarcerated loved one in Alaska right now, you’ve got one choice and one choice only: A phone call using Securus. Six months into the coronavirus pandemic, visitors, including family ...
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 ...
A St. Clair County judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the county that alleged the sheriff's department conspired with a telecommunications company to force jail inmates to use costly video ...
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 ...