Hundreds, and perhaps even thousands, of inmates inside U.S. prisons have gotten ahold of cell phones. Many spend the evenings chatting away in their cells. It's a problem many prison officials don't ...

Video of a fight inside the Great Plains Correctional Facility in Hinton is making rounds on social media, raising concerns ...

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is leading a 23-state coalition urging the Federal Communications Commission to allow ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - According to the Department of Justice, two South Georgia inmates involved in a nationwide cell phone ...

Oklahoma state prisons might soon be able to electronically jam cell phone signals, to keep inmates from using contraband cell phones. The Federal Communications Commission is expected to vote at the ...

To hear prosecutors and tough-on-crime-politicians tell it, the reason we in South Carolina have more than our share of violent crimes, and non-violent crimes, for that matter, is that we don’t lock ...

The spiking number of cell phones in cellblocks is exacerbating problems of violence and crime behind bars and outside, interviews, incident reports and internal documents reviewed by NBC News have ...

Cellphones seized by jail staff inside of the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center. United State Attorney's Office for South Carolina The Federal Communications Commission approved a proposal allowing ...

The BCA said the inmate had a "medical emergency" and was found unresponsive in his cell just before 7:30 a.m. on Jan. 1.