The company willing to provide New York State's 52,000 inmates with tablets at no cost to the state or taxpayers expects to make nearly $9 million off of inmate transactions over the next five years.

NEW YORK (WABC) -- All 50,000-plus inmates incarcerated in New York State prisons will receive free tablets, a Department of Corrections and Community Supervision spokesperson confirmed. Each tablet ...

Each inmate incarcerated in a New York State prison will soon have a free tablet. The tablets will give inmates access to educational content, eBooks and music, officials said. They'll also help ...

ALBANY (AP) — New York plans to join the growing number of states that have distributed tablet computers to prison inmates so they can better communicate with family members and boost their ...

BOISE, Idaho -- Idaho prison officials say 364 inmates exploited vulnerable software in the JPay tablets they use for email, music and games to collectively transfer nearly a quarter million dollars ...

RAHWAY, N.J. (Reuters) - Marvin Worthy, confined to a New Jersey state prison since 2004, cannot watch his son play basketball or visit him in college. But for the past three years, a tablet computer ...

There was a meme on Facebook the other day with the blazing headline: “Inmates getting tablets?! Impeach Cuomo!” What exactly one has to do with the other is unclear. But it does show the kind of ...

The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) said inmates would have access to prison-approved tablets this year. But so far, fewer than 30% have them. In November 2024, DOC spokesperson Aaron Swanum ...

(TNS) — When he was elected Erie County Sheriff, John Garcia pledged to make the jails he oversees safer. A new program to provide computer tablets and a set of headphones to inmates will do just that ...

CLEVELAND COUNTY, Okla. (KFOR) — Inmates at the Cleveland County Detention Center (CCDC) received their own tablet device that will be used for education, communication, and well-being purposes. The ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – Inmates in South Dakota’s prison system will be allowed to use tablets to communicate starting Friday, April 5. On Thursday, the South Dakota Department of Corrections ...