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Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
South Carolina Crime Stoppers Snitch Line Scammed by Brandon Sample Most people are familiar with Crime Stoppers, the “snitch line” for individuals with information about crimes. Successful tips can result in benefits to the tipster – which can take the form of cash, leniency with a new case or a …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Prison Phone Rates Under Scrutiny by Louisiana Regulatory Agency by The Louisiana Public Service Commission (PSC) is examining the rates for phone calls made by prisoners. To help it in that determination, the PSC has hired outside counsel to analyze rates, review regulations and compare them with other states to …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Private Equity Firms Profit Handsomely from Prison Phone Services by The October 2011 sale of Global Tel*Link Corp. (GTL), the nation’s largest prison and jail phone company, demonstrates what a goldmine prison phone services are for the provider side of the market. The sale, reportedly valued at $1 billion, was …
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
. The law provides that “a person who possesses with the intent to deliver, or delivers [to prisoners] any cel-lular telephone or other wireless communication device or any component thereof ...” is subject ...
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
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 …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
ones is actually called “giving.” When asked by the Dayton Daily News about prisoners’ telephone access in Montgomery County, Major Daryl Wilson explained, “We give them as many calls as they need ...
Article • September 15, 2011
), the same contractor that CDCR uses in its prisons. As in its prison contract, Global paid a hefty kickback from excess profits built into its prisoner-only telephone rate. CDCR transfers its Global kickback ...
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
Texas Prison Phones and Emails Generate Less Revenue Than Expected by When the Texas legislature passed SB 1580 in 2007, requiring the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) to install phones in state prisons, Texas was the only state that did not allow prisoners to make regular phone calls. Even …
is significant because it indicates that AT&T may be held liable for abusive practices associated with the provision of telephone services at Washington State prisons. As reported in PLN’s April 2011 cover story ...
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Low Rates in Michigan DOC Phone Contract Demonstrate Actual Cost of Prison Phone Services by Alex Friedmann PLN’s April 2011 cover story detailed the results of our comprehensive multi-year research project on prison phone services, including a state-by-state comparison of prison phone rates, commission (kickback) percentages, and the amounts of …
, 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 ...
Some Agencies Balk at Releasing Prison Phone Data by Michael Rigby by Mike Rigby It is common knowledge among PLN readers that prison and jail phone rates are priced far above those in the free world. But just how overpriced are they? What is the average kickback (commission) rate provided …
Article • March 15, 2011 • from PLN March, 2011
Short-Lived Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Global Tel*Link in California, Then Secretly Settled by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim Sick and tired of being gouged by high prison phone rates, Nadia Alvarez and Rachel Fishenfeld, two California residents, filed a consumer class action suit against Global Tel*Link (GTL) in August …
Article • December 15, 2010 • from PLN December, 2010
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
); and CenturyTel Telephone Utilities, Inc. (CenturyTel), in the Superior Court of Washington for King County. Plaintiffs alleged that between June 1996 and December 31, 2000, they received collect calls from ...
Article • November 15, 2010 • from PLN November, 2010
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 …
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
collected from prisoner telephone calls to fund a Jail and Prison Ministry. Since the late 1990s, the Good News Jail and Prison Ministry has provided church services at the Lauderdale County Jail, funded ...
Article • September 15, 2009 • from PLN September, 2009
telephone and data lines. While the audit concluded that the state could not be certain that Prison Health Care Services had spent $26.7 million in public funds “prudently” or that it had received the test ...
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