The Hamilton County Alternative Sentencing Department is alerting the public to a recent scam targeting families of incarcerated individuals. Scammers are calling loved ones and falsely claiming that ...

The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) said inmates would have access to prison-approved tablets this year. But so far, fewer than 30% have them. In November 2024, DOC spokesperson Aaron Swanum ...

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The Ambulance Paramedics of B.C. union, which represents more than 4,500 paramedics and emergency dispatchers, says there is a mental health crisis among first responders in the province. There have ...

Over the past decade, dozens of states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons have contracted with private companies to provide their incarcerated populations with electronic tablets. These secure devices ...

For years, Stillwater inmate Paul Gordon unwound in his cell by turning on his prison-issued tablet to listen to music or pull up pictures of his family to recall memories of life outside. When the ...

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, ...

A Carrollton technology company that provides technology to jails and prisons is laying off 272 employees as it switches focus. The company, which is headquartered in Carrollton but claims Dallas as ...

JPay, a vendor that provides tablets and other services to incarcerated individuals in New York prisons, has reached an agreement after state Attorney General Letitia James found that many of the ...

In a 15-second TikTok video, a blonde woman in a white T-shirt appears. She asks for men or women to reach out to her if they’d “like to talk” and, at the end, blows a kiss to the camera. Over the ...

It’s out with the old and in with the new in Surfside. In the first election since the deadly Champlain Towers South condo collapse last summer, voters gave the boot to their longtime mayor, Charles ...

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