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DTC, MA, GTL Reply Brief, telephone rates, 2016

Brief • May 23, 2016

Filed under: Telephone Rates

DTC, MA, GTL Reply Brief, telephone rates, 2016 Before the COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND CABLE Petition of Recipients of Collect Calls from Prisoners ...

DTC, MA, Petitioners' Reply Brief, telephone rates, 2016

Brief • May 23, 2016

Filed under: Telephone Rates

DTC, MA, Petitioners' Reply Brief, telephone rates, 2016 ...

DTC, MA, GTL Brief on Status Proceeding, telephone rates, 2016

Brief • April 25, 2016

Filed under: Telephone Rates

DTC, MA, GTL Brief on Status Proceeding, telephone rates, 2016 ...

DTC, MA, Petitioners' Brief in Response to Notice of March 18, telephone rates, 2016

Brief • April 25, 2016

Filed under: Telephone Rates

DTC, MA, Petitioners' Brief in Response to Notice of March 18, telephone rates, 2016 ...

MA DOC ICS Rates effective March 2016

Kickback publication • April 7, 2016

Filed under: Telephone Rates

MA DOC ICS Rates effective March 2016 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety & Security Department of Correction 50 Maple Street, Suite 3 Milford, MA 01757 Tel: (508) 422-3300 www.mass.gov/doc Charles D. Baker Governor Carol Higgins O’Brien Commissioner Katherine A. Chmiel Thomas E. Dickhaut Michael G. Grant …

Prison Policy Initiative Releases Report on Email Services for Prisoners

Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016

Filed under: Prison Reform, Computers, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Telephone Rates, Family

Prison Policy Initiative Releases Report on Email Services for Prisoners by Derek Gilna The non-profit, Massachusetts-based Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) has released a comprehensive study on communication options for prisoners, focusing on email services while also citing issues related to phone calls, visitation and postal mail. According to the January …

Letter to DTC, MA, Prisoners Legal Services, collect call costs, 2013

Brief • November 8, 2013

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

Letter to DTC, MA, Prisoners Legal Services, collect call costs, 2013

MA Prisoners v. GTL MA DTC, MA, Motion Relief from Unreasonable Rates, telephone rates, 2013

Brief • October 17, 2013

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

MA Prisoners v. GTL MA DTC, MA, Motion Relief from Unreasonable Rates, telephone rates, 2013 Before the COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND CABLE Petition of Recipients ...

Petitioner's Appeal and Cover Letter

Brief • October 16, 2013

Filed under: Telephone Rates

sense to peg prison telephone rates to ordinary pay telephones. As Mr. Dawson attests, the payphone industry is not in any sense analogous to the ICS industry, see Dawson II, fi 17, 18 and, in fact ...

Second Affidavit of Douglas Dawson Petition, MA, Recepient of Collect Calls from Prisoners, Mass Dept of Telecommunications, 2013

Brief • October 11, 2013

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

. CCG is a general telephone consulting firm that works for competitive local exchange companies (CLECs), local telephone companies, cable TV providers, electric companies, wireless providers, wireless ...

Complaint against DTC, MA, Memo of Pet Opp Dismissal, collect call phone rates, 2012

Brief • March 23, 2012

Filed under: Telephone Rates, Family

Complaint against DTC, MA, Memo of Pet Opp Dismissal, collect call phone rates, 2012

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rules No Privacy Right Exists for Jail Phone Calls

Article • May 15, 2010

Filed under: Disciplinary Hearings, Self Incrimination, Evidence, Telephone Monitoring

subpoena. The Suffolk County grand jury subpoenaed the recordings of the telephone conversations of a specific prisoner at the jail. The sheriff filed a motion to quash, citing a ruling from a different ...

No Fourth Amendment Violation for Monitoring Attorney-Client Conversations

Article • July 15, 2009

Filed under: Police Searches, Criminal Prosecution, Conspiracy, Attorney Client, Attorney Misconduct, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

No Fourth Amendment Violation for Monitoring Attorney-Client Conversations by When a prisoner consents to the monitoring of calls over a jailhouse telephone, no Fourth Amendment violation ...

SAMs Valid, Requiring Defense Attorneys' Affirmation Invalid

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Political Prisoners, Attorney Client, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring, Mail Regulations, Legal Mail, Attorney Visits

SAMs Valid, Requiring Defense Attorneys' Affirmation Invalid by A U.S. District Court held that Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) were valid as to the detention of a pretrial detainee, but defense attorneys need not give affirmation as to their acknowledgment of the SAMs. 28 C.F.R. §501.3(a) (Prevention of acts of violence …

Prisoner Prevailing Party, Awarded Attorney Fees

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Attorney Fee Awards, Telephone Access, Mail, Legal Mail, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

with regulations regarding "process and delivery of plaintiff's mail and telephone access." In addition, prisoner's refusal to volunteer to be double bunked could not affect his privilege status. However ...

Prison Phones Discussed

Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998

Filed under: Injunctions, Estoppell, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Monitoring

of such systems. This ruling arose from an indirect challenge to the Massachusetts Inmate Telephone System (MITS). The MITS requires prisoners to obtain a personal identification number to call 15 pre-approved ...

Massachusetts Phone Injunction Affirmed

Article • July 15, 1996 • from PLN July, 1996

Filed under: Settlements, Injunctions, Contempt (Civil Procedure), Telephones, Telephone Rates, Telephone Monitoring

Massachusetts Phone Injunction Affirmed by The court of appeals for the first circuit affirmed a district court's contempt finding against prison officials concerning the monitoring and taping of prisoners' phone calls. In 1979 William Langton and David LeBlanc filed suit against Massachusetts prison officials over the interception and monitoring of …

MA DOC Uses New Phone System

Article • November 15, 1994 • from PLN November, 1994

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

MA DOC Uses New Phone System by Paul Wright By Paul Wright As part of the nationwide trend towards more restrictive and more expensive prison phone systems, the Massachusetts DOC signed a contract with NYNEX on January 27, 1994, for the provision of phone services to Massachusetts prisons. The new …

MA Contract Request for Responses 2005

Kickback publication

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

Required Forms Checklist· Inmate Telephone Requirements Current Call Volume & Commission History Cost Tables Sample Inmate Telephone Number Request Form Business Reference Forms Department of Correction ...

MA Contract with GTL Complete Proposal 2005

Kickback publication

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

MA Contract with GTL Complete Proposal 2005 LAZERPHONE INMATE TELEPHONE SYSTEM PROPOSAL FOR The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Corrections Request for Responses (RFR) Secure Inmate ...