In addition to banning books, Arkansas corrections officials would prohibit magazines and newspapers from being sent to inmates. It would be the strictest ban in the U.S.

State lawmakers and justice reform groups are questioning the associated costs and services available on tablets offered to those incarcerated at correction facilities.  Assembly Bill 35, passed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GTL, now ViaPath, says it provides "the most advanced inmate tablet available in the corrections market." (PRNewsfoto/GTL) State ...

The last of three inmates who escaped from a Louisiana jail by removing mortar and concrete blocks from a degraded part of a wall earlier in December has been captured, authorities said. Keith Anthony ...

Sheriff J.C. Hooper tells KRIS 6 News rising cases of tainted envelopes testing positive for fentanyl across the nation forced the change. is your neighborhood reporter for North Beach, Downtown ...

A 32-year-old Rikers Island inmate died behind bars early Sunday — the 14th in-custody death at the Big Apple jail complex this year, Correction Department officials said. Aramis Furse “appeared ...

For years, a US telecommunications company has been building proprietary AI models using phone and video calls placed by inmates in US prisons as building blocks. According to MIT Technology Review, ...

Tablet computers are used for countless reasons. They can be portable entertainment centers for everything from movies to books. They can be cheaper than laptops for college students. Even ...

The model is built to detect when crimes are being “contemplated.” A US telecom company trained an AI model on years of inmates’ phone and video calls and is now piloting that model to scan their ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A new policy at the Metropolitan Detention Center removing most paper books from inmates is under scrutiny. The policy, introduced this year, aims to curb contraband by replacing ...

The inmates said the officers carried out a weekslong campaign of violence in 2020 at the state’s lone maximum security prison. By Chris Hippensteel A group of about 150 current and former inmates at ...

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