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Telmate: call rates and kickbacks

Telmate currently provides telephone services in 2 states:

StatePays kickbacksKickback amount in 2016Cost of 15 min callState rank for affordability
Montana no None $2.040000 Noneth
Oregon yes $3,000,000.000000 $2.400000 35th

Primary Source Contracts

Indiana

Idaho

Washington

Montana

Oregon

Montana

 Prison Phone Justice Articles and Documents

 2019

October: HRDC joins application to file amicus brief in re county inmate telephone services case in CA, HRDC files joint amicus brief

April: HRDC press release on Securus/ICSolutions merger

2017

August: HRDC accuses FCC chairman of having conflict of interest

2016

April: PLN criticizes non-disclosure of Securus employee at FCC hearing on cell phones

January: HRDC's FCC comment mentioned regarding price gouging prisoners' families, Comment regarding prison reforms, HRDC's letter to the FCC mentioned regarding VA DOC's phone rate reduction

2015

October: FCC reforms applauded by HRDC's Campaign for Prison Phone Justice, HRDC's FCC comment on corruption in prison phone industry profiled

January: HRDC's FCC comments mentioned in article on video visitation

2014

November: PLN mentioned in article about FCC action on prison phone rates

October: FCC Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

September: HRDC comment to FCC regarding WA phone rates, FCC Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

January: HRDC response to PayTel comments, HRDC response to FCC caps on prison phone calls

2013:

December: Prison Legal News cover story on the prison phone industry, HRDC comment to FCC on Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

September: PLN/HRDC mentioned in article on FCC prison phone order

April: HRDC reply comment to FCC on Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

March: HRDC comment to FCC on Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

January: PLN's research on prison phone rates cited in article on FCC hearing

2012

December: FCC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

October: HRDC response to Global Tel comments 

2011

April: Prison Legal News cover story on the prison phone industry

2007

ApriL: HRDC initial comment to FCC 

 

 

 PLN Coverage of Prison Phone Justice

New York: Prisoners Have No Expectation to Privacy During Jail Phone Calls

Loaded on Nov. 5, 2019 by Chad Marks published in Prison Legal News November, 2019, page 35
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Monitoring. Location: New York.

by Chad Marks

In 2012, Emmanuel Diaz found himself in the custody of the New York City Department of Correction (DOC). While housed at the Rikers Island jail complex on multiple counts of burglary and robbery, he made nearly 1,100 phone calls. During some of the calls he made ...

Oregon Prisoner’s Use of Another Prisoner’s Phone PIN Constitutes Identity Theft

Loaded on Nov. 5, 2019 by Mark Wilson published in Prison Legal News November, 2019, page 30
Filed under: Telephones, Cell Phone Access. Location: Oregon.

by Mark Wilson

The Oregon Court of Appeals held on March 13, 2019 that a prisoner was guilty of the crime of identity theft because he used the personal identification numbers (PINs) of two other prisoners to access a jail telephone.

Michael Steven Connolly was confined at the Multnomah County ...

San Francisco to Cut Costs for Jail Phone Calls, Commissary Sales

Loaded on Oct. 4, 2019 by Edward Lyon published in Prison Legal News October, 2019, page 16
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates. Location: California.

by Ed Lyon

San Francisco, California mayor London N. Breed has unique views regarding people who have become caught up in the criminal justice system. Her views extend to the families of prisoners and pretrial detainees, too.

Breed, unlike many U.S. politicians, grew up in public housing. Further, her ...

Illinois Prison Phone Rates are Lowest Following Grassroots Activism

Loaded on Aug. 6, 2019 by Brian Dolinar published in Prison Legal News August, 2019, page 16
Filed under: Organizing, Lobbying, Protests, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates. Location: Illinois.

by Brian Dolinar, Truthout

“There were a lot of times my sons tried calling me,” recalled Annette Taylor, who regularly receives calls from her two sons in prison, “but there was no money on the account.” Those were some of the “hardest calls,” she said. “I ...

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