Inmate called VA medical centers from jail phones as part of elaborate scam

From inside a Washington jail, an inmate targeted seriously ill veterans at VA facilities, fooling staffers into revealing ...

Families Saw A Loved One On The Jail Roster. Then The Scam Calls Came

A Wisconsin sheriff’s office is warning families of jail inmates about scam calls that may be using public jail-roster information to sound more believable. The ... Read More ...
Law

Inmate's 100+ Jailhouse Calls to Counsel Are Not Privileged, Fed. Judge Rules

The federal judge highlighted decisions from the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Second and Eighth Circuits determining that inmates with knowledge of recordings undermines privilege given the Seventh ...
Miami Herald

Abuse at day care discovered through video calls with jail inmate, IN cops say

A teacher at a Gary, Indiana, day care is accused of abusing children while on video calls with a jail inmate, officials say. April 2024 © Google 2025 An Indiana day ...
Reuters

Inmate phone call costs slashed by US agency

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - Hefty phone bills for inmates in U.S. prisons and jails were slashed by the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday, affecting about 2 million incarcerated ...
The Washington Post

FCC slashes cost of phone calls for inmates, capping decades-long effort

The cost of phone calls will drop dramatically for incarcerated people under new rules that federal regulators approved Thursday, concluding a decades-long effort to provide relief to the nation’s 2 ...