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Prisoners Pay Millions to Call Loved Ones Every Year. Now this Company Wants Even More
Article • August 31, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
Filed under: Private Prisons, JPay, Inc., Telephone Rates
Prisoners Pay Millions to Call Loved Ones Every Year. Now this Company Wants Even More by Ben Walsh Prisoners Pay Millions to Call Loved Ones Every Year. Now this Company Wants Even More by Ben Walsh, Huffington Post A captive market, no competition and government contracts that make monopoly-enabled price …
Inside the Shadowy Business of Prison Phone Calls
Article • August 1, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015
Filed under: Computers, Money/Property, Trust Accounts, Telephone Rates, Visiting, Video Visitation
by providing the phone service, and the commissions help alleviate the financial burden.  When reached by telephone earlier this year, Jonathan Thompson, executive director of the National Sheriffs ...
New Jersey County Seeks New Jail Phone Contract, Increases Commission Rate
Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
New Jersey County Seeks New Jail Phone Contract, Increases Commission Rate by Derek Gilna New Jersey County Seeks New Jail Phone Contract, Increases Commission Rate by Derek Gilna Officials in Bergen County, New Jersey are seeking bids on a new jail phone contract that will include an increase in the …
Feds and Tennessee Officials Investigate Prisoners Using Facebook
Article • June 3, 2015 • from PLN June, 2015
Filed under: Computers, Cell Phone Access
Feds and Tennessee Officials Investigate Prisoners Using Facebook by David Reutter Feds and Tennessee Officials Investigate Prisoners Using Facebook by David Reutter The Bureau of Prisons is investigating two prisoners who were discovered using Facebook to “broadcast live” from a federal facility in Atlanta, where they are serving time on …
New Jersey, Ohio DOCs Significantly Reduce Phone Rates
Article • May 6, 2015 • from PLN May, 2015
Filed under: Telephone Rates
New Jersey, Ohio DOCs Significantly Reduce Phone Rates by New Jersey, Ohio DOCs Significantly Reduce Phone Rates According to an April 9, 2015 press release issued by New Jersey Advocates for Immigrant Detainees, LatinoJustice PRLDEF and the New York University School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic, the New Jersey Department …
California Prisoner’s Conviction for Smuggling Tobacco Overturned
Article • April 9, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Cell Phone Access
California Prisoner’s Conviction for Smuggling Tobacco Overturned by Lonnie Burton California Prisoner’s Conviction for Smuggling Tobacco Overturned by Lonnie Burton A California state prisoner convicted of a felony offense for smuggling tobacco into prison has had his conviction reversed by a California appellate court, although a related conviction for smuggling …
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 ...
Los Angeles County Jail Exploits Prisoners, Families with High Phone Costs
Article • December 3, 2014 • from PLN December, 2014
Filed under: Telephone Rates
Los Angeles County Jail Exploits Prisoners, Families with High Phone Costs by Los Angeles County Jail Exploits Prisoners, Families with High Phone Costs by Derek Gilna Officials with Los Angeles County’s jail system have been criticized by County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky for exploiting prisoners and their families by charging excessive …
Jail Video Visitation Proposal Considered in Dallas County, Texas
Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
Filed under: Telephone Rates, Visiting
Jail Video Visitation Proposal Considered in Dallas County, Texas by Jail Video Visitation Proposal Considered in Dallas County, Texa On September 9, 2014, the Dallas County Commissioners Court unanimously rejected a proposal that would have ended all face-to-face visits with prisoners at the Dallas County Jail. The Commissioners Court had …
Prison and Jail Phone Reforms Needed in New Jersey
Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
Filed under: Telephone Rates
Prison and Jail Phone Reforms Needed in New Jersey by Karina Wilkinson Prison and Jail Phone Reforms Needed in New Jersey by Karina Wilkinson Two prison phone service providers, Global Tel*Link and Securus, continue to overcharge prisoners and their families for calls made from prisons and jails in New Jersey. …
SEC Rejects CCA, GEO Group Shareholder Resolutions to Reduce Prison Phone Rates
Article • July 11, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Advocacy, Prison Reform, Statistics/Trends, Telephone Rates
. [See: PLN, Jan. 2014, p.44]. Such kickbacks are typically based on a percentage of revenue generated from inmate telephone services (ITS) – revenue that is mostly paid by prisoners’ families ...
Louisiana Public Service Commission Considers Prison Phone Issues
Article • July 9, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
Filed under: Telephone Rates
, in a monthly news column, Commissioner Campbell noted that high prison phone rates have troubled him for more than a decade. “This issue involves millions of dollars collected by monopoly telephone ...
Pay Tel Receives Waiver of Prison Phone Rate Caps
Article • May 20, 2014 • from PLN May, 2014
Filed under: Telephone Rates
Pay Tel Receives Waiver of Prison Phone Rate Caps by Pay Tel Receives Waiver of Prison Phone Rate Caps   On January 8, 2014, Pay Tel Communications, a North Carolina company that provides phone services at correctional facilities in 13 states, filed a petition requesting a waiver of the rate …
Lowering Recidivism through Family Communication
Article • April 15, 2014 • from PLN April, 2014
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, Mail Regulations, Visiting
Lowering Recidivism through Family Communication by Alex Friedmann There are currently 2.2 million people held in prisons and jails in the United States,1 and an estimated 95% of prisoners currently in custody will one day be released. Based on 2012 data, around 637,400 people are released annually from state and …
Prison Phone Justice Campaign: Recent Developments
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Prison Phone Justice Campaign: Recent Developments by PLN’s December 2013 cover story provided an updated look at the prison phone industry and examined a recent order by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that imposed rate caps on interstate (long distance) prison and jail phone calls. There have since been several …
Shareholder Resolutions Seek to Lower Phone Rates at Private Prisons
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Telephone Rates
Shareholder Resolutions Seek to Lower Phone Rates at Private Prisons by On November 26, 2013, shareholder resolutions were filed with Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and The GEO Group, Inc. – the nation’s two largest for-profit prison companies; the resolutions seek to reduce the high cost of phone calls made …
FCC Rate Caps on Prison Phone Calls to Impact Nevada DOC’s Budget
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
FCC Rate Caps on Prison Phone Calls to Impact Nevada DOC’s Budget by David Ganim The rate caps recently imposed on interstate (long distance) prison phone calls by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) signal much-needed financial relief for prisoners and their families; however, they will also leave an estimated $650,000 …
FCC Order Heralds Hope for Reform of Prison Phone Industry
Article • December 15, 2013 • from PLN December, 2013
Filed under: Immigration, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, Telephone Monitoring, Cell Phone Access
facilitates the reintegration of inmates into society upon release from prison," the report said. "In contrast, reducing inmate telephone rates could also have some disadvantages....With fewer profits, BOP ...
Prison Phone Companies Fight for Lucrative Florida DOC Contract
Article • December 15, 2013 • from PLN December, 2013
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Prison Phone Companies Fight for Lucrative Florida DOC Contract by David Ganim In April 2013, the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) issued an invitation for companies to bid on the department’s coveted prison phone contract. The FDOC evaluated responses to the bid invitation and conducted negotiations with three companies: Global …
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