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American Bar Association Recommends Expanded Prisoner Telephone Access

Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, Attorney Calls

American Bar Association Recommends Expanded Prisoner Telephone Access by by John E. Dannenberg The Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association (ABA) made a formal ...

Indiana State Courts Have Jurisdiction In Prisoner Phone Contract Case

Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006

Filed under: Administrative Exhaustion, Class Certification, Telephones, Telephone Rates, Municipal Liability

-1-2-38 because the class was challenging the reasonableness of telephone rates and charges. The trial court granted the dismissal on November. 7, 2002, based on this statute and § 8-1-2-54 containing ...

Disclosure of Washington State Prisoner Phone RatesDisclosure of Washington State Prisoner Phone Rates Stymied by the Courts

Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005

Filed under: Standing, Disclosure of Records, Mootness, Telephones, Telephone Rates

by the Courts by John E. Dannenberg When recipients of Washington state prisoner-originated long distance phone calls sought to compel disclosure of the telephone rates for those calls, the Washington superior ...

Mere Pendency of Proceedings Deprives Court of Jurisdiction in Jail Collect Call Case; Attorney Fee

Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005

Filed under: Attorney Fee Awards, Public Defenders, Injunctions, Standing, Mootness, Telephones, Telephone Access, Attorney Calls

alleged that HCJC's policy of allowing prisoners to make only collect telephone calls, in combination with the Hamilton County Public Defender's policy of refusing collect calls operated to deny pretrial ...

Contraband Cell Phones On The Rise In U.S. Prisons

Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Telephones, Telephone Access

experiencing a new contraband problem: cellular telephones. Texas prison officials learned how serious the problem was during a months-long undercover investigation that began in the fall of 2003. Electronic ...

Phone Companies Gouge California Jail Prisoners' Families

Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, Attorney Calls

, explained the higher costs away only by saying that jail telephone systems are more complex." Michel Hennessey, San Francisco County Sheriff, noted that some sheriffs - who find the booty easy money to fill ...

California Awards MCI WorldCom Another Sole-Source Prisoner Phone Contract

Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

sites. According to Lorretta Fine, CDC's Telecommunications Branch (TB) Chief, the new contract is designed to aid CDC investigative staff. Statewide reports on telephone use can be generated. Auto ...

California Demands $1.6 Million In Diverted Telephone Revenues From Private Prison Contractor

Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005

Filed under: Marantha Private Corrections, Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Telephone Rates

California Demands $1.6 Million In Diverted Telephone Revenues From Private Prison Contractor by John E Dannenberg California Demands $1.6 Million In Diverted Telephone Revenues From ...

Is There A Winning Argument Against Excessive Rates For Collect Calls From Prisoners?

Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005

Filed under: Reviews, Telephones, Telephone Rates

. Dannenberg We all know about how prisons and jails conspire with telephone companies to bilk recipients of prisoner phone calls via exorbitant chargesswollen by kickbacks approaching 60%but how does one ...

Illinois Appeals Court Reinstates Prisoner's Telephone Disconnect Suit

Article • December 15, 2004 • from PLN December, 2004

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

Illinois Appeals Court Reinstates Prisoner's Telephone Disconnect Suit by The Illinois Court of Appeals for the Third District reinstated a prisoner's lawsuit against Ameritech over ...

Virginia SCC Without Jurisdiction to Hear Prisoner Phone Rate Challenge

Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

, Jr., filed a complaint with the SCC alleging that M.C.I. Telecommunications Corporation (MCI) charged excessive rates for telephone service in the Commonwealth's prisons. The SCC entered a Final Order ...

California Class Action Lawsuit Targets Unauthorized Prison Phone Charges

Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004

Filed under: Class Certification, Telephones, Telephone Rates, Attorney Calls

California Class Action Lawsuit Targets Unauthorized Prison Phone Charges by A lawsuit currently pending in a California state court claims that certain providers of prison telephone ...

No Qualified Immunity in Civil Commitment Phone Monitoring

Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004

Filed under: Injunctions, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring, Qualified Immunity, Civil Commitment

' telephone calls, (2) from barring outgoing calls other than collect calls, and (3) to allow "prompt telephone access to residents in cases of family emergency." The SCC had repeated notice of what it must ...

Nebraska Prisoners Win Summary Judgment on Phone Access and Monitoring Issues

Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004

Filed under: Attorneys, Attorney Client, Telephone Access, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring, Access to Media

Nebraska Prisoners Win Summary Judgment on Phone Access and Monitoring Issues by Nebraska Prisoners Win Summary Judgment on Phone Access and Monitoring Issues by Matthew T. Clarke A Nebraska state district court granted Nebraska state prisoners' summary judgment on issues involving the monitoring and recording of phone calls to government …

Washington Failure to Disclose Prison-Phone-Rate Suit Dismissed, State Supreme Court Grants Review

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

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

Washington Failure to Disclose Prison-Phone-Rate Suit Dismissed, State Supreme Court Grants Review by Sam Rutherford Division I of the Washington State Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court dismissal of an action challenging phone companies' failure to disclose the rates for collect calls made by Washington prisoners. Relief was …

Discipline Without Notice Violates Due Process; BOP Administrative Exhaustion May Be Excused

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

Filed under: Notice of Rules, Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's, Habeas Corpus, Telephones, Telephone Access

for violation of a rule he had no notice of violates due process. Scott Seehausen, a BOP prisoner confined at FCI-Sheridan telephoned David Reyes-Espinosa, a former member of his prison softball team. Reyes ...

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 …

Fighting for Fair Phone Rates

Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Telephone Rates

Fighting for Fair Phone Rates by Deborah M Golden Fighting For Fair Phone Rates by Deborah M. Golden In 2000, a group of prisoners, loved ones of prisoners, and attorneys filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the high cost of collect calls …

Disarray in Colorado: Prisoners Hurt by Host of Problems

Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004

Filed under: Prison Labor, Work Strikes, Crime/Demographics, Prison/Jail Murders, Statistics/Trends, Overcrowding, Staffing, Parole, Telephone Rates, State Legislation

done this to themselves," Gotsch says. Prisoner Phones Effective July 1, 2003, State Senate Bill 03-303 eliminated all Public Utility Commission (PUC) authority to "regulate telephone ...

CCA Closes Oklahoma Prison, Settles Tax Lawsuit Over Ohio Prison

Article • March 15, 2004 • from PLN March, 2004

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Financing, Prison Rebellion, Staffing, Money/Property, Tax Law, Telephone Rates

. According to Bill Clausius, spokesman for the Wisconsin DOC, state law caps prison telephone rates at $1.25 for the connection fee and 22 cents for each additional minute. Sayre is now stuck with the AT&T ...