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 ...

This is part of Time, Online, a Future Tense series on how technology is changing prison. Just a few companies control prisoners’ access to phone and video calls, educational resources, data storage, ...

Almost nobody outside of the Kentucky Department of Corrections has heard about how several hundred prison inmates hacked their state-issued, for-profit computer tablets to create more than $1 million ...

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A federal rule prohibiting jail and prison phone companies from paying a commission to law enforcement has prompted the Baxter County sheriff to announce he will remove the phones inmates use to ...