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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 …

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 ...

Alternative Prisoner Phone Service Company Files Unsuccessful Suit

Article • May 15, 2010 • from PLN May, 2010

Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, Civil Procedure, State Law Claims, Administrative Exhaustion, Telephone Rates

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

Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010

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

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 ...

Mississippi Prisoners Make Collect Call for Jesus

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 ...

Audit Finds California Prison Receiver Broke State Law by Making No-Bid Contracts with Verizon

Article • September 15, 2009 • from PLN September, 2009

Filed under: DOC/BOP misconduct, Telephones, Telephone Rates

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 ...

Florida’s Private Prisons Still Lack Meaningful Oversight

Article • August 15, 2009 • from PLN August, 2009

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Contractor Misconduct, Telephones, Telephone Rates

violations, it will train its staff in prison-related operation and management, private prisons will be accountable for performance of their programs, telephone rates will be set comparable to public prisons ...

Illinois Court of Appeals: Prisoner Has Standing to Sue Ameritech for Fraud

Article • August 15, 2009 • from PLN August, 2009

Filed under: Standing, Telephones, Telephone Rates

Illinois Court of Appeals: Prisoner Has Standing to Sue Ameritech for Fraud by On July 1, 2008, an Illinois Court of Appeals held that a prisoner had standing to bring a claim against Ameritech for consumer fraud. Johnnie Flournoy, an Illinois state prisoner at the Joliet Correctional Center, filed suit …

Outrageous phone rates devastate families of prisoners

Article • July 15, 2009

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

with their families and their communities. What's more, because the chance to speak with a loved one is perhaps the most important privilege a prisoner enjoys, officials condition telephone access on a clean prison ...

Report Says New Mexico Prison Phone Companies Still Gouging Families

Article • June 15, 2009 • from PLN June, 2009

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

Report Says New Mexico Prison Phone Companies Still Gouging Families by Dave Maass Report Says New Mexico Prison Phone Companies Still Gouging Families by Dave Maass The phone is ringing; you pick it up. An operator announces it’s a collect call – your spouse, sibling, child – from prison. Will …

Indiana Court Denies Challenge to Monopolistic Prison Phone Contracts

Article • June 15, 2009 • from PLN June, 2009

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, Contractor Liability

by families and friends of prisoners who challenged prison telephone contracts as monopolistic and prison phone rates as oppressive. The appellate court held that it was not illegal for the Indiana Department ...

Washington DOC - JPay Contract 2009-2012

Kickback publication • 2009

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

for the facility related to the affected Service, via telephone, paging and confirmatory email or fax. In an Emergency where there is a potential danger of destruction of a material portion of Contractor's Equipment ...

California Class-Action Suit Reinstates $1.5 Million Illegally Siphoned From County Jail Inmate Welfare Fund

Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009

Filed under: Money/Property, Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Trust Accounts, Telephone Rates

ordered put in place for five years. Moreover, any kickbacks from telephone companies (estimated at $200,000) were to be paid to the IWF, not to the SCC general fund. Finally, the 21 page settlement ...

$7.5 Million Fine Recommended in Florida Jail Phone Overcharges

Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009

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

. (TCG) pay $7.5 million for the improper disconnection of jail prisoners’ telephone calls. The recommendation was made in a September 8, 2008 memorandum following an investigation into complaints made ...

Georgia Sheriff Must Give Revenue from Prisoner Phone Calls to County

Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

Court of Appeals has held that a sheriff must turn over to the county all revenue from a profit-sharing prisoner telephone contract. The ruling upholds an order of declaratory relief granted to Lincoln ...

Nebraska Appeals Court: Failure to Exhaust Remedies Jurisdictional Defect

Article • December 15, 2008

Filed under: Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Civil Procedure, Administrative Exhaustion, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, Telephone Monitoring

-Netix Telephone Company, which operated the prison "calling system." Mumin claimed, among other things, that the monitoring and recording of his "private telephone conversations involving discussions ...

Wright et al v. Securus DC, Plf Alternative Rulemaking Proposal, telephone rates, 2008

Brief • November 19, 2008

Filed under: Telephone Rates

Wright et al v. Securus DC, Plf Alternative Rulemaking Proposal, telephone rates, 2008 2000 PENNSYLVANIA AVE., NW WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006-1888 MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP TELEPHONE: 202.887.1500 ...

Nevada Phone Contract Reduces Costs to Prisoners’ Families But Increases State’s Kickback

Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008

Filed under: Telephone Rates, News, State Legislation

Nevada Phone Contract Reduces Costs to Prisoners’ Families But Increases State’s Kickback by David Reutter Nevada Phone Contract Reduces Costs to Prisoners’ Families But Increases State’s Kickback by David M. Reutter A panel headed by Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons has approved a contract that reduces the cost of in-state collect …

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 ...

Harris County, Texas Sends 600 Jail Prisoners to Private Pen in Louisiana

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

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Private Prisons, Emerald Correctional Management, Overcrowding, Telephone Rates

Harris County, Texas Sends 600 Jail Prisoners to Private Pen in Louisiana by Harris County, Texas Sends 600 Jail Prisoners to Private Pen in Louisiana In December 2007, Harris County, Texas officials announced they were sending an additional 200 jail prisoners – 180 of them women – to a privately-run …