Cost Calls program was designed to help inmates stay connected with their families for free and reduce recidivism.

Private-equity backed firm Securus has secretly been recording inmate conversations for years, collecting data to train its ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – Massachusetts’ policy of allowing inmates to make phone calls at no cost to recipients is affecting the budget for Hampden County jails. The policy, designed to help inmates maintain ...

Critics of the cost of phone calls for inmates call Montana's rates -- and similar rates charged in many states -- a de facto tax on the poor. State and county officials, however, say the money goes ...

Sheriff John Montgomery of Baxter County, Arkansas, isn’t going to take it anymore—if by “it” you mean “having to offer lower phone call rates to incarcerated inmates.” Noting that such phone calls ...