Is it fair to force families to pay outrageous rates to call relatives in Louisiana jails and prisons? The five members of the Louisiana Public Service Commission will decide that question Wednesday.

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 ...