New York will soon make phone calls free in its state prisons, officials said Tuesday. People who are incarcerated in the state's prisons currently receive three free, 15-minute phone calls a week.

ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) has announced phone calls will now be free for inmates across the state beginning Aug. 1. According to DOCCS, ...

The move will save the loved ones of the state’s more than 30,000 prisoners over $13 million a year, advocates say. By Samantha Latson New York will make phone calls free for incarcerated people ...

Zach Mangino, a rising senior at Wilton High School in Connecticut, spent most of the last school year undistracted by text alerts and TikTok videos, thanks to the town’s Board of Education decision ...

This year, public school, BOCES and magnet school students are expected to stow away their personal devices from the first bell to the last. Suffern Middle School has had a bell-to-bell ban on ...

When New York State banned phones in public schools from bell to bell this past September, the goal — according to the ban’s champion, Governor Hochul — was undistracted learning. But within weeks of ...

These days, lunchtime at Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Queens is a boisterous affair, a far cry from before the smartphone ban went into effect, when most students spent their spare time ...

The City of Syracuse swore in its new mayor on Wednesday. Mayor Sharon Owens is now the first African American to hold the position in the city, as well as only Feet of snow headed to parts of CNY to ...

Today, Eddie Gibbs is an Assembly member representing East Harlem. But he still vividly remembers the years he spent in some of the state’s most notorious prisons. For Gibbs and so many other ...