Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man plays a game in the Brothers in Arms cell block, a new veteran-focused program, at the Harris County Joint Processing Center ...

After they’re given a uniform, a bunk and a blanket, Kentucky prison inmates get a sturdy computer tablet from which they can buy digital media products, such as email and video visits with their ...

Almost nobody outside of the Kentucky Department of Corrections has heard about how several hundred prison inmates hacked their state-issued, for-profit computer tablets to create more than $1 million ...

Tablets provide critical communications channels, rehabilitative resources and education so people in custody can prepare for a successful reentry back to the community DENVER, March 16, 2023 ...

In 2021, TDCJ began issuing Securus tablets to prison inmates for free. Inmates could use them to make a phone call instead of having to wait for a phone to become available. “There’s definitely more ...

In 2021, Bryan Collier, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said that tablets would “fundamentally change” communication for the state’s more than 100,000 prison inmates.

Candra Thomas, a mentally disabled woman with a medical condition that can cause seizures, has been reported missing by the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office. A man plays a game in the ...