Sandra Ritter hasn’t seen her only son in eight years. He’s incarcerated at Apalachee Correctional Institution in North Florida, locked up for possession of cocaine. Ritter lives six hours away in ...
In November 2015, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new proposed ruling that hospitals establish a post-discharge follow-up program. The ruling is based on a number of ...
A group of Republican House members and county sheriffs are calling for an investigation and restrictions on Massachusetts’ no-cost inmate phone call program. The No-Cost Calls, which was signed into ...
All $1 million for the program came from commissary, phone and other fees mostly paid by incarcerated people — and the Legislature sought to double funding this year. The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper ...
The free call program was spearheaded by a couple of University of Florida students — Graham Bernstein, a senior at the University of Florida and director of political affairs for the Florida Student ...