The agreement with Inmate Calling Solutions, dba IC Solutions will allow tablet access for inmates and will extend the current agreement to Aug. 31, 2027. The agreement will allow for increased family ...

A sign for the Solem Public Safety Center in Pierre. The center is the home of the South Dakota Department of Corrections administrative offices, as well as the South Dakota Women’s Prison. The South ...

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, ...

The jail phones are the only real connection to the outside world for inmates at the overcrowded Hill-Finklea Detention center in Monks Corner. While the days of "one phone call" are past, phone ...

Under its contract to provide inmate telephone services in state-run prisons, Global Tel Link pays 55 percent of its gross revenues to the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. The ...

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 ...

The South Dakota Department of Corrections has suspended tablet-based phone calls, texting and email services for inmates and their families due to what the DOC has described as “an investigation ...