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DOJ asked to study feasibility of AI prisoner monitoring tech; software meant to head off suicides and violent crime. Inmates’ rights advocates fear bias, privacy issues.

Table of Contents COVID Froze Prison Visits, Spotlighting High Cost of Phone Calls A person makes a call from a jail in New York City, which in 2019 became the first major U.S. city to offer free phone calls for incarcerated people. More states and localities are considering reducing or eliminating the cost of calls in prisons and jails. Julie Jacobson The Associated Press Before the coronavirus pandemic, Judi Jennings regularly led arts and crafts events in the visitors...

Donate The pandemic isolated incarcerated people. Kentucky and Securus cashed in. The Department of Corrections made at least $3.2 million last year off of incarcerated people’s phone calls, financial records obtained by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting have revealed. by Jared Bennett | July 14, 2021 For over 460 days, as the pandemic shut down visitation across the state, incarcerated people and their loved ones relied on the prison system’s costly phone calls and...

Connecticut went from a state that was among the highest in charging for calls and making money off them to one that will not charge at all.

Lawyers for a Delaware County public school teacher have filed a lawsuit over problems at Pennsylvania’s largest pension fund, alleging that poor advice from highly paid outside consultants has cost the retirement plan billions and forced 100,000 teachers to pay millions in extra pension contributions. The complaint says two consultants were “grossly negligent” in their dealings with the $67 ...

Delco teacher files suit against investing consultants to PSERS Joseph N. DiStefano, The Philadelphia Inquirer © TYGER WILLIAMS / Staff Photograp PSERS executive director Glen Grell listens during a meeting in the main boardroom at the funds offices in Harrisburg. Lawyers for a Delaware County public school teacher have filed a lawsuit over problems at Pennsylvania’s largest pension fund, alleging that poor advice from highly paid outside consultants has cost the retirement...

ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.

1200 tablets donated to Ventura County jail system

Inmates at North Fork Correctional Center in Sayre began receiving special computer tablets this week, as part of a Department of Corrections plan to provide...

Inmates at an Oklahoma prison began receiving special computer tablets this week, as part of a Department of Corrections plan to provide secure tablets to