Ohio lawmakers have been moving toward banning cell phones for some time. They passed a law in 2024 that required school ...

Prison guards were able to easily identify inmates with contraband cell phones when the alert noise rang out, TMZ reports. The alert message said: “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless ...

Others become prison reform advocates, teach computer skills, trade bitcoin or write legal briefs. I’ve seen a whole plethora of savvy and creative uses that fly in the face of stereotypes about ...

Prisoners with cell phones play an ever-increasing role in the underworld of scams and the relentless exploitation of innocent public. Prisoners orchestrate elaborate schemes from inside their ...

The move suspends a 2024 FCC decision that capped the price of in-state phone calls at 6 cents minute for prisons and large ...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier held a news conference announcing an operation targeting inmates using cell phones and other technology in jail to try to scam seniors out of money.

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan sentenced a man to five years in prison after he defrauded ...

A New Jersey woman has been indicted in a federal case tied to her husband, a notorious house flipper, after she destroyed ...

You can only use a cell phone for so long before the bill comes due. And Friday in federal court, Chantilly's Candice Rose Martinez — the infamous "cell-phone bandit" — learned the price she ...

In 2023, The Marshall Project reported that inmates also used cell phones to further their education, for self-care, to earn additional income and connect with family or friends.