Like other Americans, inmates and their families are struggling financially. CARES Act stimulus payments for inmates, which were granted after a legal challenge, help offset the myriad expenses ...

Dozens of groups are calling on federal regulators to protect released prison inmates from steep fees they must pay to access their own money via prison-issued payment cards. People who are released ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - More details have come to light in connection with a Gregg County jailer accused of using an inmate’s debit card to make Amazon purchases. On Jan. 27, a deputy said he learned ...

Inmates in Ohio prisons, who recently were given access to e-mail for the first time, now have a new way to get telephone money from family and friends through an automated system. The Ohio Department ...

Clarence Justin Aldred received his inmate account balance on a prepaid card upon release from Macomb Correctional Facility in New Haven, Michigan, in July 2013. (Courtesy of Clarence Justin Aldred) ...

For decades, inmates leaving the Hennepin County jail or workhouse received checks to replace any cash they had on them when they were arrested. Those checks frequently were lost or damaged — or weren ...

Inmates released from York County Prison may soon be given a debit card instead of a check to access whatever funds remain in their prison account upon release, a move that could save the county about ...

A detention officer in Yavapai County has been arrested and accused of theft and fraud over the use of an inmate's debit card. A news release from the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office said the ...

JPMorgan Chase’s contract to provide debit cards to inmates released from federal prison may have backfired after a former convict raised a ruckus. The bank agreed to pay a total of $446,822 to ...

Like other Americans, inmates and their families are struggling financially. CARES Act stimulus payments for inmates, which were granted after a legal challenge, help offset the myriad expenses ...