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NY Corrections & Community Supervision - Inmate Telephone Calls, Revision Notice 2015

Publication • September 11, 2015

Filed under: Attorney Calls

; and 8. The call must not exceed 30 minutes in duration. An inmate shall receive the attorney call at one of the following locations as determined by the correctional facility: 1. An inmate phone booth ...

Tchatat v. City of New York et al, NY, Order, police photo telephone discovery, 2014

Brief • November 10, 2014

Filed under: Police Misconduct, Police Searches, Discovery, Telephones, Property

Tchatat v. City of New York et al, NY, Order, police photo telephone discovery, 2014 Case 1:14-cv-02385-LGS Document 151 Filed 11/10/14 Page 1 of 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT ...

In re Emails on Trulincs, NY, DOJ Letter to Federal Defenders - Classified Inmate Email over Trulincs, 2014

Brief • June 9, 2014

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

prong, the Second Circuit has previously held in an analogous context that an inmate's communication over a telephone that the inmate knows is being recorded by prison authorities is not protected ...

Cheese v Primm, NY, Order, legal phone call, 2014

Brief • May 5, 2014

Filed under: Attorney Calls

to conduct confidential telephone conferences with plaintiff Constantine Cheese, via telephone, at mutually agreeable dates and times for plaintiff's counsel and the Correctional Facility staff. The plaintiff ...

The Swatch Group Management Services v. Bloomberg, NY, Opinion and Order, Infringement of Record, 2012

Brief • May 17, 2012

Filed under: Summary Judgment, Intellectual Property, Telephone Monitoring, Media

Defendant for infringement of a recorded telephone conference call between senior executives of Plaintiffs parent company and invited securities analysts. Defendant, although not invited to participate ...

Suit Challenging Election Surveillance May Go Forward, Second Circuit Decides

Article • November 15, 2011

Filed under: Searches, Computer Searches, Police Searches, Telephone Monitoring

Suit Challenging Election Surveillance May Go Forward, Second Circuit Decides by A lawsuit challenging the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments of 2008 (FAA) may proceed, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decided March 21, 2011. The lower court dismissed the suit on standing grounds. Amnesty International, with …

Exorbitant Prisoner Phone Rates Pass New York Constitutional Scrutiny

Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

– affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit arguing that the contract between the New York State Department of Correctional Services (NYDOCS) and MCI Worldcom Communications for prison telephone services violated ...

NY DOC’s Former 60% Prisoner Phone Call Kickback Scheme Did Not Violate Prisoners’ Families’ Constitutional Rights

Article • October 15, 2008 • from PLN October, 2008

Filed under: Money/Property, Tax Law, Telephone Rates

; (NYDOC) policy of contracting for prisoner collect telephone calls, which resulted in a 60% kickback to NYDOC from the telephone company, did not violate the constitutional rights of the recipients ...

New York Prison System Phone Kickbacks Upheld; Reversed by Court of Appeals

Article • August 15, 2008

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

New York Prison System Phone Kickbacks Upheld; Reversed by Court of Appeals by A New York Supreme Appellate Court has sidestepped ruling on the merits of a lawsuit claiming that the practice of the New York Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) of receiving a commission from prisoner phone calls was …

Court Upholds Photocopying of Jail Prisoner’s Mail, Suppression Denied

Article • May 15, 2008

Filed under: Searches, Police Searches, Criminal Prosecution, Telephone Monitoring, Mail Regulations, Legal Mail

, both incoming and outgoing." The court distinguishes telephone monitoring cases because in those the monitoring was done pursuant to an ongoing security-related program. At 292: "No case holds ...

Notice Implies Consent to BOP Jail Phone Recordings

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Telephone Monitoring

Notice Implies Consent to BOP Jail Phone Recordings by The criminal defendants were convicted based in part on recordings of their telephone calls from jail. Title III of the Omnibus Crime ...

Telephone User Has Standing to Sue Over Poor Service

Article • May 15, 2007

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

Telephone User Has Standing to Sue Over Poor Service by A telephone user complaining of poor service had standing to sue the telephone service provider under 47 U.S.C. §§ 206 and 207 ...

N.Y. Detainee Rights Upheld Under Due Process

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Publications/Books, Mail Regulations

constituted deprivation of due process, which included limitations on telephone use, receiving and sending letters, non-contact visiting periods, the receipt and reading of magazines and newspapers, medical ...

NY Ban on Internet Materials Upheld

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Podiatry, Clothing, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Mail Regulations, Internet

NY Ban on Internet Materials Upheld by A serious medical need is "a condition of urgency that may result in degeneration or extreme pain." (559) (No it isn't, necessarily.) The plaintiff alleged an eight-month delay in diagnosis of his "bowel disorder" (mild distal proctitis and internal hemorrhoids) from the time …

Two Victories in New York’s Struggle Against Unjust Telephone Contract

Article • April 15, 2007 • from PLN April, 2007

Filed under: Civil Procedure, Limitations, Telephone Rates, Contractor Liability

, 2004, as the campaign was heating up, CCR filed a suit against the New York State Department of Corrections and MCI over its monopoly contract and the exorbitant telephone rates family members and others ...

NY DOC's 60% Telephone Call Surcharge" Violates First and Fourteenth Amendments

Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, Fathers in Prison, Mothers in Prison

NY DOC's 60% Telephone Call Surcharge" Violates First and Fourteenth Amendments by NY DOC's 60% Telephone Call Surcharge" Violates First and Fourteenth Amendments by John E. Dannenberg ...

NYPD Commissioner Charged With Stealing $112,733.98 from Jail Prisoner Fund

Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Jail Misconduct, Criminal Prosecution, Telephone Rates

NYPD Commissioner Charged With Stealing $112,733.98 from Jail Prisoner Fund by NYPD Commissioner Charged With Stealing $112,733.98 from Jail Prisoner Fund By Matthew T. Clarke On July 11, 2003, NYPD Deputy Po-lice Commissioner of Community Affairs Fredrick J. Patrick, 38, was arrested on federal charges that he looted close to …

Judicial Sentence of Life in Solitary Upheld

Article • March 15, 1999 • from PLN March, 1999

Filed under: Gang Policies, Criminal Prosecution, Judiciary, Telephones, Telephone Access, Mail Regulations

Judicial Sentence of Life in Solitary Upheld by The court of appeals for the Second circuit affirmed a court imposed sentence of life imprisonment in solitary confinement and prohibiting all communication with anyone except the defendant's attorney and close family members after the district court had approved them. The appeals …

Call Recipient's Rights Not Violated in Phone Taping

Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN January, 1997

Filed under: Criminal Prosecution, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring

that the prisoner used the telephone with awareness of the possible surveillance... When an inmate has repeatedly received notice that calls placed on prison telephones are subject to surveillance, the evidence ...

ADA Ruling for Deaf New York Prisoners

Article • December 15, 1996 • from PLN December, 1996

Filed under: Deaf Prisoners, Disabled Prisoners, Interpreters (Disciplinary Hearings), Civil Procedure, Injunctions, Declaratory Judgment, Americans with Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act, Telephone Access

devices for telephone and television and the absence of visual safety alarms violates both the ADA and the Rehabilitation Act;" the DOCS failed "to make reasonable accommodations to facilitate full ...