BOSTON (WWLP) – Several states, communication companies, and direct-action groups are suing the FCC for a policy mandating a cap for phone and video call rates for inmates. The Federal Communications ...

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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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A decade after families of prison inmates asked for action, the Federal Communications Commission agreed to limit how much companies can charge for phone calls made from behind bars.

Telephones inside the Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Vandalia, Mo., where incarcerated people pay per-minute rates to call loved ones. (Photo by Amanda ...

A federal ruling capping what it called “exorbitant” long-distance telephone rates charged to prison inmates across the nation won’t affect state prisoners in Montana, which already charges rates at ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin and seven other states are seeking to join Oklahoma in challenging a new Federal Communications Commission rule limiting the amount local jails and state prisons can ...

What is the main purpose of the Eighth Amendment? Protection against cruel and unusual punishments is at the heart of the Eighth Amendment. It ensures that punishments inflicted by the state remain ...