BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- Inmates at the St. Clair County jail managed to pull off a telephone scam last month that cost local residents hundreds of dollars in unauthorized collect calls, authorities ...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Joan Chambers pays as much as $11 to talk with her imprisoned son on the telephone for 15 minutes. Chambers, of Oklahoma City, told the House Corrections Committee on Thursday that ...

The government soon will begin recording _ and possibly listening to _ most telephone conversations between Florida prison inmates and people on the outside. As early as this summer, people who ...

Laborde said collect phone charges for the 19,000 inmates housed in state-run prisons in Louisiana are much lower than is the case for prison inmates in the neighboring states of Texas and Mississippi ...

MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Public Service Commission is mulling new rules for prison phone service providers that would afford greater protection to inmates’ families, who typically pay high rates for ...

Billings historian Don Baker was puzzled by three telephone calls he received Monday of last week and again a couple days later. An automated voice asked him whether he wanted to accept a collect call ...

A proposed new telephone contract with the Houston County Jail is expected to reap more than $200,000 a year in revenues and savings for the county. County Jail Commander Keith Reed recently bid out ...