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FCC Releases Final Version of Order Gutting 2024 Phone Cap Regulations
Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates
FCC Releases Final Version of Order Gutting 2024 Phone Cap Regulations by Michael Thompson   by Michael Thompson   As reported in PLN, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had postponed a 2024 rule poised to reduce the financial burden for incarcerated people throughout the country. [See: PLN, Aug. 2025, p. …
The Succession Battle for a Prison Empire
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
Filed under: Telephone Rates, Private Phone Contractors
The Succession Battle for a Prison Empire by Katya Schwenk by Katya Schwenk The yacht is moored at the mouth of the Miami River, in the long shadows of the city’s luxury hotels and high-­rises. It is of Italian design: sleek, imposing, with a flybridge and sundeck and five cabins, …
FCC Votes For Dramatic Hike to Prison Phone Call Rates
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
Filed under: Telephone Rates, Telephone Monitoring, Cell Phone Access, Video Visitation, Securus, Global Tel*Link Corp
;no other choice but to revert to 1980s-style supervised public pay telephones.” It wasn’t explained how that is bad for the detainees; a 15-minute local call on most payphones runs far less than ...
FCC Issues Proposed Rule Permitting Cellphone Jammers in Prisons and Jails
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Telephone Rates, Cell Phone Access, Federal Legislation, Police State-Surveillance
FCC Issues Proposed Rule Permitting Cellphone Jammers in Prisons and Jails by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on September 30, 2025, to issue a Third Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to relax the current ban on using cellphone “jamming” technology in prisons and jails. …
Albert v. GLOBAL TELLINK CORP, MD, Memorandum Opinion, Telephone Rates, 2025
Brief • October 15, 2025
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Telephones, Telephone Rates, Antitrust Offenses, Bid-Rigging, Price-Fixing, etc., Kickback Scheme, Securus, Global Tel*Link Corp
Albert v. GLOBAL TELLINK CORP, MD, Memorandum Opinion, Telephone Rates, 2025 Case 8:20-cv-01936-LKG Document 487 Filed 10/15/25 Page 1 of 7 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT ...
Letter to FCC re Incarcerated People's Communication Services-09-15-2025
Publication • September 15, 2025
Filed under: Telephone Access, HRDC Sign on Letters, Prisoners' Rights, Global Tel*Link Corp
Letter to FCC re Incarcerated People's Communication Services-09-15-2025 September 15, 2025 Chairman Brendan Carr Commissioner Anna Gomez Commissioner Olivia Trusty Federal Communications Commission 50 L Street, NE Washington, DC 20554 Re: Incarcerated People’s Communications Services, WC Docket Nos. 23-62, 12-375 Dear Chairman Carr, Commissioners Gomez and Trusty: The ninety-five undersigned …
FCC Backtracks on 2024 Order to Cut 
Prison Phone and Video Rates by Half
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Filed under: Telephone Rates, Video Visitation, Private Phone Contractors, Securus
FCC Backtracks on 2024 Order to Cut Prison Phone and Video Rates by Half by On June 30, the Federal Communications Commission announced a two-year postponement of a rule to lower the price of phone and video calls in prisons and jails. As PLN reported, the FCC voted in 2024 …
HRDC Collaborates on Prison Telecom Cost Report 
to Washington Lawmakers
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Filed under: Electronic Tablets, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates
HRDC Collaborates on Prison Telecom Cost Report to Washington Lawmakers by Chuck Sharman A report on prison telecom costs presented to state lawmakers in Washington on December 13, 2024, showed dramatic decreases nationwide in the price of calls from prisons and jails over the past decade. A similar drop was …
Ohio Sued by Non-Profit Law Firm 
for Opening Prisoner Legal Mail
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Filed under: Attorney Client, Legal Materials, Attorney Calls, Legal Mail
Ohio Sued by Non-Profit Law Firm for Opening Prisoner Legal Mail by On May 6, 2025, the Ohio Justice and Policy Center, a non-profit law firm, filed a lawsuit against the state Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (DRC) over the practice of intercepting mail between prisoners and their attorneys. The …
Guards Used “Blast Grenades” to Break Up Mob Attack 
in California Prison
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Filed under: Failure to Protect (General), Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Prisoner Privileges, Telephone Access
Guards Used “Blast Grenades” to Break Up Mob Attack in California Prison by On June 6, 2025, Julian Mendez, 46, a prisoner on death row at the Kern Valley State Prison in Riverside County, California, was killed by inmate Mario Renteria, 36, using a makeshift weapon, KGET in Bakersfield reported. …
JPay Loses Bid to Revoke Class Certification in Washington Prisoners’ Challenge to Crummy Products and Service
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Filed under: Electronic Tablets, Computers, Telephone Rates, Securus
JPay Loses Bid to Revoke Class Certification in Washington Prisoners’ Challenge to Crummy Products and Service by Over five years ago, in May 2020, Washington prisoners Michael Linear and Lonnie Burton filed a complaint in state court against prison telecom JPay LLC, which held the exclusive contract with the state …
Free Calls in Massachusetts Lead to 
Defunded Prison Programs
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Filed under: Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, Private Phone Contractors
Free Calls in Massachusetts Lead to Defunded Prison Programs by In December 2023, Massachusetts became the fifth state to provide free phone calls in its prisons and the first in all local jails. Video calling and e-messaging were also made available at no cost [See: PLN, Mar. 2024, p. 15]. …
Albert v. Global Tellink Corp, MD, Memorandum Opinion and Order, Telephone Rates, 2025
Brief • June 13, 2025
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Telephones, Telephone Rates, Antitrust Offenses, Bid-Rigging, Price-Fixing, etc., Kickback Scheme, Securus, Global Tel*Link Corp
Albert v. Global Tellink Corp, MD, Memorandum Opinion and Order, Telephone Rates, 2025 Case 8:20-cv-01936-LKG Document 439 Filed 06/13/25 Page 1 of 17 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ...
GTL/ViaPath Ordered to Pay $3 Million for Violations 
of Consumer Protection Laws
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Telephone Rates, Bid-Rigging, Price-Fixing, etc., Global Tel*Link Corp
GTL/ViaPath Ordered to Pay $3 Million for Violations of Consumer Protection Laws by Global Tel*Link (GTL), doing business as ViaPath Technologies, is one of the nation’s largest providers of carceral communications services, including phones, video calling, and e-messaging. Its subsidiaries include Telmate, LLC and TouchPay Holdings, LLC; the latter provides …
Smart Communications Files for Bankruptcy Protection
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Telephones, Mail, Legal Mail, Private Phone Contractors
Smart Communications Files for Bankruptcy Protection by Smart Communications Holding, Inc., provides a variety of communications services in prisons and jails nationwide, including phone calls, video calling, tablets and e-messaging. It’s best known for its mail scanning program, MailGuard, which digitizes correspondence sent to prisoners and provides the scans on …
A Song for Condemned Alabama Prisoner
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Filed under: Witnesses, Telephone Monitoring, Evidence - Failure to Disclose
in their Sunday best/Hand to Bible they did confess/Condemned to reap what deceit had sown/In a deadly game of telephone.” Johnson waits at Holman Correctional Facility for a new trial or for Marshall ...
GTL, Co-Defendant Agree to $21.3 Million Settlement with HRDC in Price-Fixing Lawsuit
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Filed under: Settlements, Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Telephone Rates, HRDC Litigation, Global Tel*Link Corp
GTL, Co-Defendant Agree to $21.3 Million Settlement with HRDC in Price-Fixing Lawsuit by On October 31, 2024, preliminary approval was granted to a settlement reached with the second of three prison telecom giants accused of illegal price-fixing. The suit was filed in June 2020 in United States District Court for …
Albert v. GLOBAL TELLINK CORP, MD, Memorandum Opinion and Order, Telephone Rates, 2025
Brief • April 1, 2025
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Telephones, Telephone Rates, Antitrust Offenses, Bid-Rigging, Price-Fixing, etc., Kickback Scheme, Securus, Global Tel*Link Corp
Albert v. GLOBAL TELLINK CORP, MD, Memorandum Opinion and Order, Telephone Rates, 2025 Case 8:20-cv-01936-LKG Document 492 Filed 10/31/25 Page 1 of 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT ...
Pay-for-Play Tablets: The Costly New Prison Paradigm
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Electronic Tablets, Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Telephone Rates, Tapes/Music, Securus, Global Tel*Link Corp
with their incarcerated loved ones? The NASPO master agreement specifies that phone calls made by prisoners (excluding attorney calls) shall be recorded and stored for the life of the contract, with call record details ...
Mayhem, Murder and Staff Misconduct at Brooklyn BOP Lockup
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: Cell Searches, Drug Testing, Prison/Jail Murders, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Cell Phone Access, Searches - Cellphones/Computers/Internet
Mayhem, Murder and Staff Misconduct at Brooklyn BOP Lockup by The Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a notorious federal jail in Brooklyn, New York, has made the news repeatedly thanks to some high-profile detainees held there to await trial. But federal prosecutors have also charged nine detainees for a series of …
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