Every first of the month, Heather Leitl and her kids raced to the phone. The prisons' free phone call minutes would reset like clockwork, and Leitl's four kids were eager to hear their father's voice ...

Sheriff John Montgomery of Baxter County, Arkansas, isn’t going to take it anymore—if by “it” you mean “having to offer lower phone call rates to incarcerated inmates.” Noting that such phone calls ...