When you get sent to prison you don’t get to bring your cell phone, but many prisoners are finding ways to get cell phones and this is becoming a problem. Cell phone use by inmates is used to run criminal activity like drug trafficking and gangs. They can also be used to intimate people on [...]

The California Senate is expecting to vote on a bill next week that would make it a crime for state prison inmates (about 172,000 statewide) to possess cell phones, or to have them smuggled in. Cell phones have become more and more popular in California prisons- more than 2,800 phones were confiscated from inmates [...]

Prisoners in Siberia are using web cams to communicate with their families and friends. It’s the first instance in Russia but authorities hope it will be rolled out in prisons across the country.

By Mike Ward  | Friday, February 13, 2009
Using voice-identity technology once used to order U.S. military air strikes, Texas on March 30 will begin allowing prison convicts to make legal phone calls for the first time on old-fashioned, hard-wired handsets that promise to earn taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. Texas is the last state [...]

By Cathy Bussewitz
Carson City, Nev. — A plan debated Tuesday by Nevada lawmakers would allow some state prison inmates – who lost the use of personal typewriters starting in 2007 – limited access to the Internet.
Currently, inmates can’t use the Internet, but have access to electronic library materials on CD-ROMs. Under AB34, they could get [...]

They Don’t Have to be Expensive!
1. Present for his kids – This can go further than anything you may be able to give him directly.
2. Dedicate a song to him on the radio – A great way to share a moment… and save it.
3. Puzzles, puzzles, and more puzzles – Games can keep his mind [...]

By Deputy Warden Patrick Branson

Technology Overview
The term technology today is so widely accepted that we actually have divisions intended to separate one form from another. We have high tech, low tech, green technology, brown technology, space technology, hypertechnology, nanotechnology and finally, we even have the term “tech factor” to describe the level of technology. In [...]

Connecting Electronically
The Internet is a remarkable tool that has given new opportunities to people in all parts of the world, including prisoners in the United States. As the Web expands and new services develop, more and more correctional facilities are inviting the use of computers and electronic mail, often referred to simply as email, within [...]