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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 lobby at the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections in Kentucky. It wasn’t until in-person vi...

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 emails.  The Kentucky Department of Corrections and Securus Technologies reaped big rewards. Recor...

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 ...