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Oklahoma Prison Giving Inmates Tablets, but Some Activities, Like Sending Email, Come With Charges On 6/9/21 at 12:40 PM EDT An Oklahoma prison began giving inmates special tablets this week with free content such as a law library, self-help materials and some books, but communication with families on the outside and other entertainment comes with fees. The Department of Corrections (DOC) is aiming to provide secure tablets to all inmates in state prisons. The tablets, which were designed by Se...

Sean Murphy Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY — 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 all inmates at state prisons. The devices, specially designed by prisons communications company Securus Technologies, will include free content such as prison policies, access to a law library, some books and educational and self-help materials. Inmates can also pay to receive music, movies, gam...

© Getty Images Oklahoma prison inmates will be issued computer tablets on which they will be able to receive educational or vocational training. The state Department of Correctionss plan is to get every inmate a free tablet that is designed by Securus Technologies, a prison communications company, The Associated Press reported. Along with specialized training, the tablets will give prisoners access to music, TV, a law library, certain books and the ability to receive and send messages to th...

Oklahoma prison inmates to begin receiving computer tablets SEAN MURPHY, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5In a photo provided by the North Fork Correctional Center in Sayre, Oklahoma on Tuesday, June 9, 2021, inmate Byron Robinson works on a new Securus tablet, which are being provided for free to Oklahoma inmates as part of a new program by the Department of Corrections. Robinson, who has been incarcerated since 2005, the same year YouTube was founded, said it was the f...

An annual report from watchdog group Court Watch NOLA, released Monday, brought to light a program that stores all recorded phone calls, including some

The bill makes it free for the 8,960 people in CT prisons and jails to call their loved ones. It now goes to Gov. Ned Lamont.

Telephone calls were a lifeline for Hartford resident Diane Lewis when her son was incarcerated. “I made these phone calls priority over everything, before

She set dinner on the table before sharing the bad news with her 10-year-old son Wyatt. On and off throughout Wyatt’s life, his father has been incarcerated at the Kennebec County Correctional Facility in Augusta. Most weeks his mom, Courtney Allen, scraped together $50 to pay for a few 15-minute phone calls from the jail. That week she didn’t have the money.  This story was originally published by The Maine Monitor. The Maine Monitor, formerly known as Pine Tree Watch, is a local journal...

A billboard on I-91 in West Haven over the summer calling on Gov. Ned Lamont to make phone calls free at correctional facilities across the state. The state Senate voted on Thursday to make it free for incarcerated people to call their loved ones from prison or jail. Sen. Martin Looney, President Pro Tem of the Senate and a New Haven Democrat, called the bill a “good investment of therapeutic policy” that would help reduce the feelings of alienation, detachment and isolation that so many pe...

Curious Alaska: Where does the money that DOC makes off inmate phone calls go? In Alaska, the majority of money that families spend on phone calls with incarcerated people goes right back to paying for the imprisonment itself: for inmate towels, food, bedding and drug testing. The rest enriches a private equity-owned corporation called Securus Technologies Ltd. It works like this: All phone calls from any Alaska jail or prison have to be made through Texas-based Securus. For at least 30 years...