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Nationwide PLN Survey Examines Prison Phone Contracts, Kickbacks
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Crime/Demographics, Statistics/Trends, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, PLN Litigation
, Wisconsin transferred all its prisoners to a different CCA facility. [See: PLN, March 2004, p.14]. “We find it hard to believe that they would shut down the prison over telephone rates. We had no interest ...
Reach Out and Defraud Someone: Oregon Jail Prisoners Commit Phone Scams
Article • November 15, 2010 • from PLN November, 2010
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates
Reach Out and Defraud Someone: Oregon Jail Prisoners Commit Phone Scams by Mark Wilson A fifteen-minute collect call from the Multnomah County jail in Portland, Oregon costs $2.35, billed to the party who accepts the call. Between May 2006 and April 2009 those calls generated $3.5 million in revenue for …
Washington Prisoner’s Privacy Rights Not Violated by Recording Jail Phone Calls
Article • December 15, 2009
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Telephone Monitoring
Washington Prisoner’s Privacy Rights Not Violated by Recording Jail Phone Calls by Division One of the Washington State Court of Appeals has held that recording a prisoner’s jail telephone ...
Contraband Smuggling by Texas Prison Guards Rarely Punished Harshly
Article • September 15, 2009 • from PLN September, 2009
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, Criminal Prosecution, Telephone Access
Contraband Smuggling by Texas Prison Guards Rarely Punished Harshly by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A review conducted by a Houston newspaper concluded that a large quantity and variety of contraband is still being smuggled into Texas prisons by state prison guards, and those caught smuggling rarely receive harsh punishment. …
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 ...
Texas, New Jersey Prison Staff Prosecuted for Cell Phone Smuggling
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Cell Phone Access
Texas, New Jersey Prison Staff Prosecuted for Cell Phone Smuggling by On October 20, 2008, the entire Texas prison system was locked down and searched for cell phones and other contraband. The search resulted in the discovery of hundreds of cell phones, chargers, SIM cards, tobacco stashes and weapons. [See: …
Suit Filed Over Minnesota Jail’s Secret Recording of Privileged Phone Calls
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Attorney Client, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring
Suit Filed Over Minnesota Jail’s Secret Recording of Privileged Phone Calls by Matthew Clarke Suit Filed Over Minnesota Jail’s Secret Recording of Privileged Phone Calls by Matt Clarke On October 15, 2008, a Minneapolis law firm filed a civil rights suit in federal district court alleging that attorney-client phone calls …
Entire Texas Prison System Locked Down to Search for Phones; Prison Cell Phone Problem is Pandemic
Article • March 15, 2009 • from PLN March, 2009
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, Prison/Common Area Searches, Criminal Prosecution, Lockdowns, Telephone Access, Death Row, State Legislation
prisoners regular access to telephones so they can call their families. Although the state has signed a contract to have phones installed at all TDCJ facilities, the installation is not expected ...
Ninth Circuit Upholds Admission of Statements to Police in Phone Conversation Absent Miranda Warning
Article • February 15, 2009
Filed under: Criminal Prosecution, Crime, Habeas Corpus, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring
Ninth Circuit Upholds Admission of Statements to Police in Phone Conversation Absent Miranda Warning by Washington State prisoner Habib Saleh sought review of his federal habeas corpus denial challenging the admission of statements made in a voluntary phone conversation he initiated at his trial for first degree murder. The court …
Millions Paid in Mississippi Jail Deaths; Ten Guards Sentenced for Abuses; Corruption Continues
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Correctional Services Corp., Jail Misconduct, Judicial Misconduct, Prison Labor, OB/GYN, Criminal Prosecution, Failure to Protect (General), Overcrowding, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Stun Guns/Tasers, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Restraints, Damages, Disclosure of Records, Telephone Access, Suicides, ACA
Millions Paid in Mississippi Jail Deaths; Ten Guards Sentenced for Abuses; Corruption Continues by Bob Williams “The house always wins,” Warden Don Cabana proclaimed to the Sun Herald, a Mississippi newspaper, in July 2007. However, Harrison County, home of the Harrison County Adult Detention Center (ADC), has agreed to pay …
Sandin Inapplicable to Pretrial Detainees
Article • August 15, 2008
Filed under: Dental Care, Escapes, Strip Cells, Restraints, Attorney Calls, Mail, Mail Regulations, Ad-Seg Hearings, Access to Media
Sandin Inapplicable to Pretrial Detainees by Procedural Due Process--Disciplinary Proceedings (920): Sandin does not apply to detainees, who are entitled to procedural due process in disciplinary proceedings. Here there was some evidence because staff said the plaintiff had confessed. Procedural Due Process--Administrative Segregation (921): Placement of an escape risk in …
Jail Phone Wiretapping Exempt from California Invasion of Privacy Act, FCA
Article • August 15, 2008
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Telephone Rates
Jail Phone Wiretapping Exempt from California Invasion of Privacy Act, FCA by California state prisoner David Windham appealed the refusal of a court to suppress jail telephone recordings ...
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 ...
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 ...
"Let Freedom Ring" -- Cellphones Abound In California Prisons
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
Filed under: Crime, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates
"Let Freedom Ring" -- Cellphones Abound In California Prisons by Over 1,000 cellphones and Blackberrys were confiscated in California's 33 prisons in the past year. While such contraband was at a trickle seven years ago, the technology has reduced the size of these items to permit a veritable flood today …
CA Prisoner's Convictions for Conspiracy to Smuggle Drugs Vacated for Bad Jury Instructions
Article • January 15, 2008
Filed under: Criminal Prosecution, Conspiracy, Jury Instructions, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring
CA Prisoner's Convictions for Conspiracy to Smuggle Drugs Vacated for Bad Jury Instructions by Jaime Jasso, a California state prisoner, made several phone calls to someone outside of prison named Ruben. Guards monitored those calls and discovered that their purpose was for Passo to give Ruben directions for obtaining drugs …
Using Jail Phones After Verbal and Posted Warnings of Recording Implies Consent
Article • December 15, 2007
Filed under: Criminal Prosecution, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring
Using Jail Phones After Verbal and Posted Warnings of Recording Implies Consent by California detainee David Windham appealed a decision holding that recordings of jail-placed phone conversations were lawful and could be used for conviction purposes. Windham asked his girlfriend for money while shopping. She refused and he followed her …
Texas Last State in Union to Get Prison Phones
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Victims, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, State Legislation
prisoner telephones in state prisons. State Senator Letica Van de Putte filed SD 1580, authorizing the phones, which took effect Nay 15, 2007. State Representatives Terri Hodge (D-Dallas) and Pat Haggerty (R ...
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 ...
Evidence From Tape-Recorded Conversation Not Admissible
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Criminal Prosecution, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring
Evidence From Tape-Recorded Conversation Not Admissible by In this criminal proceeding, the Supreme Court of California held that evidence from a car towed from defendant's apartment was admissible, but evidence from a tape-recorded conversation between the defendant and his wife was not. After his arrest, defendant's wife was permitted to …
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