WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - Hefty phone bills for inmates in U.S. prisons and jails were slashed by the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday, affecting about 2 million incarcerated ...

Fees Texas inmates pay to make calls will be slashed under recently approved federal regulations. High rates that had averaged 23 cents a minute for Texas jail inmates have long been a target of ...

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 ...

An inmate at the Erie County Correctional Facility was crying as he ended a telephone conversation Wednesday morning. He went into the shower area of his housing unit and hanged himself, a well-placed ...

One phone call wasn't enough for an inmate at the Winona County jail. Henry Lee Doyal, 54, is in jail after he was arrested earlier this month in a domestic assault outside a Winona hotel. Deputies ...