The company willing to provide New York State's 52,000 inmates with tablets at no cost to the state or taxpayers expects to make nearly $9 million off of inmate transactions over the next five years.

ALBANY (AP) — New York plans to join the growing number of states that have distributed tablet computers to prison inmates so they can better communicate with family members and boost their ...

BOISE, Idaho -- Idaho prison officials say 364 inmates exploited vulnerable software in the JPay tablets they use for email, music and games to collectively transfer nearly a quarter million dollars ...

Each inmate incarcerated in a New York State prison will soon have a free tablet. The tablets will give inmates access to educational content, eBooks and music, officials said. They'll also help ...

The technology situation for incarcerated people in the United States is beyond bad: "Because prison telecom vendors tend to bundle their services, corrections systems often contract with a single ...

There was a meme on Facebook the other day with the blazing headline: “Inmates getting tablets?! Impeach Cuomo!” What exactly one has to do with the other is unclear. But it does show the kind of ...

RAHWAY, N.J. (Reuters) - Marvin Worthy, confined to a New Jersey state prison since 2004, cannot watch his son play basketball or visit him in college. But for the past three years, a tablet computer ...

Perhaps the most lasting criticism of the American prison system as it exists today lies in a fundamental disagreement over the purpose of incarceration. Beyond removing dangerous individuals from ...

Video technology is giving Minnesota inmates a glimpse of the outside world — and often a window into their former homes — from behind bars. All 11 state Department of Corrections (DOC) facilities now ...