Aventiv Technologies, which provides telecommunications services to correctional facilities, struck an agreement with a group ...

Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, to cut off the use of smuggled phones by incarcerated ... and prisoners had limited access to them. She said new limits on the cost of prison calls established by the ...

"This legislation is a common-sense step to cut off their ability to threaten witnesses, organize drug trafficking and endanger law-abiding citizens from with prison walls." The use of cell phones ...

While phone call prices have been slashed in half, family members fear rising costs to use state-issued tablets.

The legislation would allow state prisons to use cellphone ... deadliest prison riots in United States history. In July 2023, SCDC launched a pilot program that deactivated cell phones found ...

which are often used illegally to direct criminal activities both inside and outside the prison system. The proposed legislation would lift the federal ban on the use of cell phone jamming systems ...