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Ameelio wants to take on for-profit, prison-calling rackets after starting with free letters to inmates
Among the many problems with the prison system are enormous fees for things like video calls, which a handful of companies provide at grossly inflated rates. Ameelio hopes to step in and provide free
The Last Mile is launching its coding program at a women’s prison in Indiana
The Last Mile, a coding program that first launched inside California's San Quentin State Prison, has expanded to its first out-of-state prison. Yesterday, The Last Mile announced its plans to launch
Crunch Report | Samsung Heir Apparent Found Guilty
Samsung heir apparent is found guilty of embezzlement, Go-Jek closes a $1.2 billion round and the Google Pixel could be coming October 5th. All this on Crunch Report.
UK prisons can now get cellphones remotely blocked over suspected illicit use
It shouldn’t come as a surprise, really, that mobile phones are becoming an increasing concern among those tasked with policing prison populations. Smuggled in cellulars are being linked to all sort
Cable modem hacker charged, pretends to be innocent
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/cablehack.png" />According to <a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/hardware-hacker.html">documents obtained online</a>, the
Prisoners, meet the body orifice security scanner
Acronyms are fun. In light of that fact, I’m pleased and honored to tell you about the BOSS. It stands for body orifice security scanner. It’s an almost-$13,000 security chair being tested
Don't Copy That Floppy: Pirate Gets Sentenced
I was going to go on some huge Cory Doctorow-esque rant about how being arrested for piracy is a waste of resources for law enforcement, how the fines are rediculous, etc. Then I saw that this dude di
Sex Offenders Complain About Removed PCs
Over in Minnesota, a group of imprisoned sex offenders are pissed off because guards confiscated PCs they were using in their cells/rooms. So like any American, they took it to a court of appeals, onl
Verizon Is Going To Jail
Shame on you Verizon. First you run out on your wife, then get into a bitter battle over alimony. Now the telecom giant is going to jail for failure to appear in court. Some guy named “Poodleman
Embattled HP Execs Charged with Felonies
It certainly seems to be raining shit on Patricia Dunn and pals. We’ve been reporting about the whole spying debacle for weeks. Today, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed felony charg