CLEVELAND, Ohio — More than two years after a county watchdog flagged the issue, Cuyahoga County is finally recouping some of the money it lost on a jail management system that was never implemented.

In 2021, Bryan Collier, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said that tablets would “fundamentally change” communication for the state’s more than 100,000 prison inmates.

A federal rule prohibiting jail and prison phone companies from paying a commission to law enforcement has prompted the Baxter County sheriff to announce he will remove the phones inmates use to ...