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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 ...

Ex-Communication: Competition and Collusion in the U.S. Prison Telephone Industry

Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Crime, Statistics/Trends, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

of prison telephone access in the U.S. is itself of relatively recent vintage. Until the early 1970s, prisoners of the state and federal prison systems were limited to one collect call every three months ...

Texas Prisoner Gets 40 Years For Cellphone; Guards Get Probation

Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Crime, Telephone Access

Texas Prisoner Gets 40 Years For Cellphone; Guards Get Probation by Michael Rigby In April 2006 a Texas prisoner was sentenced to 40 years in prison for possessing a contraband cell phone--8 years more than the 32-year sentence he was already serving for auto theft. The sentence, the longest anyone …

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 …

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 ...

Secretly Recorded California Jail Phone Conversations May Be Used to Convict

Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003

Filed under: Criminal Prosecution, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring

of arson and two counts of first degree murder. Unbeknownst to her, while awaiting trial in county jail, her telephone conversations with non-attorney visitors were recorded - at the request of the district ...

Ohio 'Entrepreneur' Lands in Hot Water

Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001

Filed under: Crime, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Monitoring

credit card and telephone scam he ran from behind bars. Lonny Lee Bristow, 27, was already serving a 9year 11month sentence at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, OH, for retaliation ...

Alabama Officials Guilty in Phone Scam

Article • December 15, 2000 • from PLN December, 2000

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Criminal Prosecution, Telephone Rates

of interest while lobbying for the Public Service Commission, Boyett became their cover. Global sold the Alabama state prison contracts in 1993 to People's Telephone Co. in Miami. Ellis told the court that he ...

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 …

Kansas Prisoners Lose Welfare Fund Suit

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

Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Victims, Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Telephone Rates

Kansas Prisoners Lose Welfare Fund Suit by A federal district court in Kansas held that state prisoners were not entitled to injunctive relief regarding how money from the Inmate Benefit Fund (IBF) was spent by the DOC. Kansas state prisoners filed a class action suit challenging how the Kansas DOC …

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 ...

Washington Legislation Passed

Article • July 15, 1996 • from PLN July, 1996

Filed under: Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Victims, Costs, Three Strikes, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring, Death Penalty, State Legislation

into law: HB 2195: This law modifies RCW 9.73.095 and allows for the electronic monitoring of all telephonic and non-telephonic conversations in prison living units, cells, rooms, dormitories and common ...

The Telephone Game

Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993

Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Telephone Rates

The Telephone Game by Nearly a year and a half after a scandal about purchasing involving the North Carolina Coin Tel Company has passed. The grand jury has finally indicted two people ...