>> HERE IN LITTLE ROCK TODAY, THE FCC CHAIRMAN ANNOUNCED THAT THE COMMISSION, WHEN THEY MEET AT THE END OF THE MONTH, WILL VOTE ON LIFTING A BAN THAT WOULD ALLOW STATE PRISONS AND LOCAL COUNTY JAILS ...

Correctional Officer Jose Sandoval inspects one of the more than 2,000 cell phones confiscated from inmates at California State Prison. Rich Pedroncelli AP file The Federal Communications Commission ...

I hope your joking. What would make you think people in prison would have the luxury of using a cell phone. Of course they are already banned. Cell phones in prison are a big a problem as drugs. Right ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect the FCC voting for cell phone jamming in state and local prisons. Agents and troops with the Memphis Safe Task Force set up a base of operations ...

It was the Fourth of July, and I was in my Sing Sing cell, sweating in the heat, perched on the edge of my bunk with my feet dunked in a bucket of cold sink water. What really had me burning, though, ...

More than 500 mobile phones, electronic devices, and SIM cards have been destroyed after they were seized from a men's prison. The devices were taken from inmates at HMP Manchester, formerly known as ...

ATMORE, Ala. (WALA) - A Montgomery man is accused of using a drone to try and deliver drugs and phones to inmates at the Fountain Correctional Facility. According to court documents, 34-year-old Jesse ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - Drug trafficking, human trafficking, child abuse and even attempted murder have all been carried out by inmates from behind prison walls in South Carolina. That’s ...

Inmate Larry Stone made enough money to post bond and get out of jail. July 28, 2011 — -- Some clever inmates at the Lake County Jail in Florida figured out a money-making scheme by allegedly ...