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Deregulation of Telephone Rates in Florida Eliminates Caps on Prisoner Rates

Article • March 15, 2013

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

Deregulation of Telephone Rates in Florida Eliminates Caps on Prisoner Rates by To comply with Florida law, the state’s Public Service Commission (PSC) amended its rules to remove its ...

Florida Jail Offers Video Visits to Profiteer More From Prisoner Families

Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011

Filed under: Computers, Telephones, Telephone Rates

Florida Jail Offers Video Visits to Profiteer More From Prisoner Families by A video visitation system has been installed at Florida’s Charlotte County Jail. Using money from the Inmate Welfare Fund, which is derived from profits from the canteen and other services to prisoners, the jail installed a system that …

Alternative Prisoner Phone Service Company Files Unsuccessful Suit

Article • May 15, 2010 • from PLN May, 2010

Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, Civil Procedure, State Law Claims, Administrative Exhaustion, Telephone Rates

of the nation’s largest prison and jail telephone service providers filed a federal lawsuit alleging violation of the Federal Communications Act. The suit was filed by Millicorp, a Florida-based company ...

Call Your Attorney from Jail, Go to Prison

Article • March 15, 2010 • from PLN March, 2010

Filed under: Attorney Client, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

at an Oakland, California jail. In Broward County, the sheriff settled a class-action suit that was filed after two prisoners learned their supposedly “privileged” attorney calls were not so privileged after all ...

Third-Party Calling Disconnects at Jail Net $1.25 Million Settlement; Customers Get Nothing

Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Telephone Rates

Third-Party Calling Disconnects at Jail Net $1.25 Million Settlement; Customers Get Nothing by by David M. Reutter When it comes to prison and jail telephone services, it’s all about how ...

Florida’s Private Prisons Still Lack Meaningful Oversight

Article • August 15, 2009 • from PLN August, 2009

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Contractor Misconduct, Telephones, Telephone Rates

violations, it will train its staff in prison-related operation and management, private prisons will be accountable for performance of their programs, telephone rates will be set comparable to public prisons ...

$7.5 Million Fine Recommended in Florida Jail Phone Overcharges

Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Telephone Rates

. (TCG) pay $7.5 million for the improper disconnection of jail prisoners’ telephone calls. The recommendation was made in a September 8, 2008 memorandum following an investigation into complaints made ...

Florida DOC Ends Unofficial Transfer-for-Sale Policy

Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008

Filed under: Transfers, Misconduct/Corruption, DOC/BOP misconduct, Attorney Misconduct, Telephone Rates

reduced the cost of canteen items and collect telephone calls accepted by prisoners’ families and friends. “I didn’t feel the high cost of phone calls for prisoners and their families was proper. I stopped ...

Authorities Listen in on Attorney-Client Calls at Jails in FL, CA and TX

Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008

Filed under: Criminal Prosecution, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

Department claimed the attorney calls had been recorded due to an “inadvertent glitch” in the phone system, according to the Union Tribune. The system was not supposed to record calls placed to phone numbers ...

Sawchuck v. Jenne, FL, Order on SJ, Attorney-Client Communications, 2007

Brief • September 21, 2007

Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Attorney Client, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

to telephone access 419 F. Supp. 2d 820 836 (E.D. Va. 2005) (prison See also U. S. v. Lentz, policy of recording and monitoring all inmate telephone calls did not infringe Plaintiffs Sixth Amendment rights ...

Florida’s Broward County Jail: Abuse and Misconduct As Usual

Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007

Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Criminal Prosecution, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

recorded all phone calls, including privileged calls between prisoners and their lawyers. A BSO official claimed the recording was due to a "glitch" in the phone system, and only one attorney call had been ...

Attorney/Client Privilege Voided by Including Third Persons in Conversation

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Attorney Client, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

, who argued the trial court abused its discretion by admitting testimony of his former attorney and a tape recording of a telephone conversation with that attorney. Black called his sister, who ...

Sawchuck v. Jenne, FL, Order, Attorney-Client Communications, 2007

Brief • March 30, 2007

Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Attorney Client, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

Sawchuck v. Jenne, FL, Order, Attorney-Client Communications, 2007 ,~.- Case 0:06-cv-61182- KAM Document 49 " Entered on FLSD Docket 03/30/2007 Page UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Case No. 06- 61182- Civ- MARRAlJOHNSON JOSEPH SAWCHUCK and RICHARD SPENCER individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated Plaintiffs …

Florida DOC Cuts Prisoner Collect Call Costs by 30%

Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

Florida DOC Cuts Prisoner Collect Call Costs by 30% by David Reutter by David M. Reutter For over 10 years, the family and friends of Florida prisoners have paid exorbitant costs to communicate with their imprisoned loved one. I dont think that's right, said interim secretary of Florida's Department of …

MCI Refund to Florida Prisoner Families

Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Telephone Rates

MCI Refund to Florida Prisoner Families by Friends and family of Florida prisoners may be entitled to $190,000 worth of free telephone calls under a recommendation issued ...

Reach Out and Bilk Someone

Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997

Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Telephone Rates, Immunity/Liability, Contractor Liability

Reach Out and Bilk Someone by Florida DOC officials were found in 1995 to have fraudulently awarded a contract to North American Intelicom (NAI) to provide "inmate telephone services" to 35 ...

Florida Utilities Commission Refunds Phone Kickbacks

Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Telephone Rates

Florida Utilities Commission Refunds Phone Kickbacks by The June, 1996, issue of PLN reported that the contract to provide phone services to Florida state prisoners was awarded without competitive bidding in circumstances strongly suggesting corruption. Since 1987 Florida prisoners have been allowed to make collect calls to friends and families, …

Phone Graft in Florida

Article • June 15, 1996 • from PLN June, 1996

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Telephone Rates

Phone Graft in Florida by Competing telephone companies submitted bids to provide "inmate phone services" to 35 Florida prisons. The contract was awarded to North American Intelecom (NAI ...

FL Phone Rates from Contract Amendment 2009

Kickback publication

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

") to provide Statewide inmate telephone services. This Amendment: • • Revises Section m., A., COMPENSATION to revise the COLLECT CALL SURCHARGE table, to revise the PREPAID CALL SURCHARGE table and to insert ...

FL Phone Audit 6-30-12

Kickback publication

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

of Corrections (“FDOC”), solely to assist you in evaluating the Securus contract with the FDOC. Such contract requires that Securus maintains verification of inmate telephone system reliability for accurately ...