{"id":297131,"date":"2026-09-30T20:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297131\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T20:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:52:09","slug":"allegheny-county-jail-inmates-get-new-tablets-free-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297131\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegheny County Jail inmates get new tablets, free calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inmates at the Allegheny County jail getting new tablets.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the new tablets, part of a contract with GTL-ViaPath, inmates are now also getting 30 minutes of free phone calls per day. Those calls come without any cost to taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>The County says the tablets will provide free access to among other things, books, education, and health and wellness programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause we know that it is important for individuals who are incarcerated to maintain contact with their loved ones, we prioritized affordable communication by significantly reducing fees and incorporating more free minutes per person per day,\u201d Interim Warden Connie Clark said in a release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inmates at the Allegheny County jail getting new tablets. In addition to the new tablets, part of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9647,49688,73,75,74,82406],"class_list":["post-297131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county-jail","tag-inmate","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-tablet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}