When it comes to prison phone calls, security is kinda a big deal. The whole premise behind the calls being recorded is security. Doing so, states and counties have argued, prevents crime both inside ...

Securus Technologies is changing its tune about in-person jail visitation. The communications firm, which provides video services for a number of jails across the country — Denton County Jail included ...

For the first time at AJA, the nation's largest gathering of county corrections professionals, Securus' customers can experience EVOTAB firsthand. This tamper-resistant tablet is purpose-built for ...

ATTORNEYS AND ADVOCATES for people incarcerated in local jails in Austin, Texas, have settled a federal lawsuit against telecommunications company Securus Technologies, with an agreement ostensibly ...

Securus, a for-profit corrections company that sells video visitation software, is convincing jails and prisons to remove in-person visits. Securus Richard Gladden, a Texas defense attorney, ...

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Private companies pay out big bonuses to land prison and jail phone contracts. Getty Images North America Prison phone calls are notoriously expensive for inmates and their families. Rates as high as ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... People in Denver’s jails will no longer have to wait their turn to call family members after the sheriff’s department introduced hundreds of tablet computers ...

AN ENORMOUS CACHE of phone records obtained by The Intercept reveals a major breach of security at Securus Technologies, a leading provider of phone services inside the nation’s prisons and jails. The ...

Tom Gores has made himself one of the richest men in Los Angeles buying castaway, often obscure businesses that he overhauls and unloads for big profits. That formula worked to perfection, for example ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cuyahoga County lost more than $1.1 million on a failed jail management program that never came to fruition, the county’s internal watchdog found. During a Tuesday committee meeting, ...

Kelly Schaeffer worries there might come a time when she can't afford to talk to her teenage son in jail. The 44-year-old mother estimates she spends $100 a month for her son to call her every other ...