Tag: inmate

• 31 January 2016
• by: NiaLena Caravasos
• in: Blog
• tag: company, computers, email, fund, inmate, inmates, jail, jails, nationwide, officials, paid, prison, sacramento, sheriffs, tablets, taxpayers, violence
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“Free computers for inmates? It’s latest deal at Sacramento County jail” is the headline of a recent Sacramento Bee article regarding the fact that 40 of the tablets have been in use at the Main Jail downtown for two months, and officials say they have had virtually no problems. Inmates have used them to take […]

• 23 October 2015
• by: NiaLena Caravasos
• in: Blog
• tag: call, calling, calls, cents, cost, costs, families, federal, inmate, inmates, jails, long, minute, phone, prisons, rates, rules
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As referenced in the Washington Post today, federal regulators made sweeping new steps to lower the cost of calling jail and prison inmates in an effort to correct what some top officials have called an “egregious case of market failure” in inmate phone rates. The rules establish a ceiling for phone calls to jails and […]