The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday will consider a proposal that would provide free phone calls for jail inmates no later than Dec. 1. The motion by Supervisors Hilda Solis and Holly ...

Each inmate incarcerated in a New York State prison will soon have a free tablet. The tablets will give inmates access to educational content, eBooks and music, officials said. They'll also help ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — The sheriff’s department in San Francisco has rolled out a first-of-its-kind program that gives county jail inmates access to computer tablets. While tablets are common in jails ...