Inmates at 14 state prisons in Massachusetts now have access to free phone calls under a change in policy that went into effect Friday, with an estimated taxpayer cost of nearly $20 million. “Strong ...

Two years after promising to make phone calls free for people inside the county’s seven jails, on Tuesday the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors finally approved a contract that will get it done.

Orleans Parish Prison officials last week mistakenly released a habitual offender who only days earlier had been sentenced to four years in state prison, but the inmate returned to the lockup ...