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Petition of ICS Users to Investigate Tariffs Filed by ICS Providers, MA, 2016

Brief • June 10, 2016

Filed under: Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, Attorney Calls

to pay 50 percent commissions. Facilitating telephone access is no more than a tiny portion of any Correctional Officers' duties and is appropriately part of an Officer's job — just as supervising ...

Yale Law School - Letter to BOP Director re Prison Phone Access, 2016

Publication • 2016

Filed under: Telephone Access

. 7 Telephone access is an indispensable and cost effective means of communication for supporting family relationships. Further, telephone access is critical for postrelease planning between ...

Second Circuit Allows Muslim Prisoners’ Bivens Claims to Proceed

Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016

Filed under: Religious Discrimination, Strip Searches, War on Terror, Food, Eighth Amendment, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Restraints, Telephone Access

;; and not allowed to move around their unit or freely use the telephone and commissary, or access MDC handbooks “which explained how to file complaints about mistreatment.” Additionally, the Court ...

Iowa Court Effectively Bars Lifer From Spending Any Money While In Prison

Article • March 31, 2016

Filed under: Restitution, Commissary, Telephone Access

a $240,000 bill for court costs and restitution. This means that not only will Richter be prohibited from ever buying hygiene items or food items from the prison commissary, she cannot even make a telephone ...

Global Tel Link v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America, DC, Motion for Stay of FCC Rule by Oklahoma, Telephone Contact During Incarceration, 2016

Brief • February 22, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

Global Tel Link v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America, DC, Motion for Stay of FCC Rule by Oklahoma, Telephone Contact During Incarceration, 2016 USCA Case #15-1461 ...

James v. GTL, NJ, Opinion, Telephone Terms of Service, 2016

Brief • February 11, 2016

Filed under: Trust Accounts, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

James v. GTL, NJ, Opinion, Telephone Terms of Service, 2016 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY BOBBIE JAMES, et al., Plaintiffs, v. GLOBAL TEL*LINK CORPORATION, INMATE ...

James v. GTL, NJ, Order on Motion to Compel Arbitration, Telephone Terms of Service, 2016

Brief • February 11, 2016

Filed under: Trust Accounts, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

James v. GTL, NJ, Order on Motion to Compel Arbitration, Telephone Terms of Service, 2016 Case 2:13-cv-04989-WJM-MF Document 117 Filed 02/11/16 Page 1 of 1 PageID: 1123 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ...

Public Information Handbook, Attorney General of Texas, 2016

Publication • January 1, 2016

Filed under: Public Records, Freedom of Information Act, Telephone Access, Cell Phone Access, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

: Confidentiality of Certain Addresses, Telephone Numbers, Social Security Numbers, and Personal Family Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 1. Subsection (a)(1): Public Officials and Employees ...

$54,000 Attorney Fee and Cost Award in Successful First Amendment Litigation

Article • October 27, 2015

Filed under: Telephone Access

rights action alleging the refusal to allow him to make telephone calls to his family in Romania and Jordan violated his rights. The defendants moved for summary judgment, claiming he failed to state ...

Prisoner Phone Service Providers Cannot Block Call Routing Service Calls

Article • October 14, 2015

Filed under: Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

of telephone calls is antithetical to its fundamental goal of making available “rapid, efficient, Nation-wide and world-wide wire radio communications services with adequate facilities.” Current ...

Another Kind of Isolation - The Bureau of Prisons tightens the rules at its secretive “Communication Management Units.”

Article • September 16, 2015

Filed under: Telephone Access, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

Another Kind of Isolation - The Bureau of Prisons tightens the rules at its secretive “Communication Management Units.” by Christie Thompson Another Kind of Isolation The Bureau of Prisons tightens the rules at its secretive “Communication Management Units.” By Christie Thompson In 2006 and 2008, the Bureau of Prisons quietly …

James v. GTL, NJ, Def Reply BiO to Motion to Compel Arbitration, Telephone Terms of Service, 2015

Brief • September 8, 2015

Filed under: Trust Accounts, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

James v. GTL, NJ, Def Reply BiO to Motion to Compel Arbitration, Telephone Terms of Service, 2015 Case 2:13-cv-04989-WJM-MF Document 103 Filed 09/08/15 Page 1 of 20 PageID: 894 UNITED STATES ...

James v. GTL, NJ, Opposition to Motion to Compel Arbitration, Telephone Terms of Service, 2015

Brief • August 25, 2015

Filed under: Trust Accounts, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

James v. GTL, NJ, Opposition to Motion to Compel Arbitration, Telephone Terms of Service, 2015 Case 2:13-cv-04989-WJM-MF Document 99 Filed 08/25/15 Page 1 of 35 PageID: 820 UNITED STATES DISTRICT ...

Wright Petitioners Opp to Petition for Stay before FCC, DC, Peition, Inmate Calling, 2016.

Brief • July 15, 2015

Filed under: Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

Petition, pg. 15. 16 See Pay Telephone Reclassification and Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Order on Remand, 17 FCC Rcd 3248, 3262 (2002)(finding that site commissions ...

James v. GTL, NJ, Def Motion to Compel Arbitration, Telephone Terms of Service, 2015

Brief • June 7, 2015

Filed under: Trust Accounts, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

James v. GTL, NJ, Def Motion to Compel Arbitration, Telephone Terms of Service, 2015 Case 2:13-cv-04989-WJM-MF Document 95 Filed 08/07/15 Page 1 of 2 PageID: 767 GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP 200 Park ...

Washington DOC - JPay Amendment #4 2015-2018

Kickback publication • 2015

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

Washington DOC - JPay Amendment #4 2015-2018 State of Washington Department of Corrections This Amendment Contract No. K8262 Amendment No. 4 is made by the state of Washington, Department of Corrections, hereinafter referred to as Department, and JPay, Inc., hereinafter referred to as the Contractor, for the purpose of amending …

McBride v. MDOC, MI, Class Action Complaint, Deaf Inmate Communication, 2015

Brief • March 31, 2015

Filed under: Deaf Prisoners, Complaints, Americans with Disabilities Act, RLUIPA, Telephone Access, Video Visitation, First Amendment

in religious services; or access telephone and television services. Because Defendants have failed to provide them adequate assistance, Plaintiffs are forced to serve their time largely isolated from, and unable ...

VanValkenburg v. Oregon Department of Corrections, OR, Amended Complaint, Hearing Disability Discrimination, 2015

Brief • March 18, 2015

Filed under: Deaf Prisoners, Education, Americans with Disabilities Act, Telephone Access

made no telephone access available to Mr. VanValkenburg. From the time he was at SRCI forward, defendant has made available TTY machines for deaf or hearing impaired inmates who wish to use the telephone ...

Screening Out Family Time: The For-Profit Video Visitation Industry in Prisons and Jails

Article • March 5, 2015 • from PLN March, 2015

Filed under: Computers, Telephone Access, Visiting, Extended Family Visiting

the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) capped the cost of interstate calls from prisons, these video chats were even cheaper than the telephone. Lisa’s experience is representative of the promise ...

Dialing with Dollars: How County Jails Profit From Immigrant Detainees

Article • February 4, 2015 • from PLN February, 2015

Filed under: Immigration, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

end up paying the same inflated telephone rates charged to their citizen prisoner counterparts, but unlike jail prisoners charged with a crime, immigration detainees don’t have access to court ...