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Goodbye, Ajit Pai © Provided by Slate Take your mug and go. Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images It took an industry man to ruin the internet as we knew it. The damage to a free and open virtual network wrought by the killing of net neutrality standards hasn’t yet assumed the apocalyptic form that digital watchdogs warned of. But the internet service providers who benefit from relaxation of the restrictions are already taking advantage in subtle ways, toeing the line into future, likely more ex...

It took an industry man to ruin the internet as we knew it. The damage to a free and open virtual network wrought by the killing of net neutrality standards hasn’t yet assumed the apocalyptic form that digital watchdogs warned of. But the internet service providers who benefit from relaxation of the restrictions are already taking advantage in subtle ways, toeing the line into future, likely more explicit abuses, while prices for service remain sky-high for low-income users. This is all a gra...

Posted By: Jacob Weston January 20, 2021 @ 9:20 am Local News, News In an effort to stop drugs from making it into the jail, the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office will no longer allow personal mail to be sent to inmates. The jail contracts with Securus Technologies for a lot of services, and they will handle this too. Starting immediately, mail to an inmate should be addressed as shown below. Letters and photos will be s...

/PRNewswire/ -- Securus Technologies today released its weekly update detailing the total number of free calls, video connections, JPay Stamps, news...

Securus Technologies Provides Over 60 Million Free Communications To Support Incarcerated Individuals Amid Pandemic Emergency offerings to help keep families connected and support re-entry include 34.9 million free phone calls totaling 279.4 million free minutes; 6.0 million free video connections; 20.0 million free JPay Stamps; 216,767 free news subscriptions; 712,123 free game downloads News provided by Share this article Share this article DALLAS, Jan. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Securus Techno...

Print this article In this Aug. 1, 2020, file photo, from left to right, Los Angeles Lakers Anthony Davis, LeBron James and Quinn Cook kneel before an NBA basketball game against the Toronto Raptors in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (Ashley Landis/AP) The NBA’s pandemic restart was a perfect time to sow the seeds of social justice. And as the league tips off its new season, now is the time to reap. An activist group has taken out a full-page advertisement in the New York Times...

Alabama prisons: ON STRIKE! Occupied Muscogee Creek / Cherokee / Yuchi / Choctaw / Shawnee / Chickasaw land As of Jan. 1, 2021, incarcerated workers in Alabama’s odious prison system are on strike!  Led by the Free Alabama Movement, incarcerated workers throughout the state of Alabama have put down their work tools and refused to go to work from now until Jan. 31. The inhumane conditions of Alabama Department of Corrections, their negligence around COVID-19, and their implementation of vide...

Precinct Reporter Group News Stopping Exploitation of Prisoners Requires Comprehensive Solutions By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr.  2020 brought renewed global focus to issues of social justice in America.  From the racial disparities and inequities highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic to the killings of George Floyd and so many other Black and Brown Americans at the hands of police officers have all contributed to the evolving social justice “recko...

Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores spoke to the media on Saturday, addressing a nonprofit groups push to have him sell the team.

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Fla. Appeals Court Wont Undo Prison Phone Contract Law360 (December 22, 2020, 6:13 PM EST) -- A Florida appeals court on Tuesday affirmed the dismissal of Securus Technologies Inc.s protest to a contract awarded to a rival company for inmate phone services with the Florida Department of Corrections over concerns the award did not comply with the departments initial request. In a short per curiam decision, a three-judge First District Court of Appeal panel affirmed t...