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Report Finds Criminal Justice System Financially Overburdens Prisoners and Their Families

Article • December 28, 2016

Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Prison Reform, Statistics/Trends, Cost of Prison Systems, Attorney Fees (PLRA), Filing Fees (PLRA), Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Release and Reentry, Indigent Defense, Filing Fees, Collateral consequences of prison, Bond Fees, Booking Fees, Commissary, Telephone Rates, Family, Racial Profiling

Report Finds Criminal Justice System Financially Overburdens Prisoners and Their Families by Christopher Zoukis The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, a nonprofit focused on racial and economic policy, in conjunction with Forward Together and a dozen other community and civil rights organizations recently released a study which surveyed hardships …

Photo of Prisoner Beaten by Georgia Gang Members Posted Online

Article • December 8, 2016 • from PLN December, 2016

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Retaliation for Media Contact, Retaliatory Transfers, Prison Gangs, Failure to Protect (General), Cell Phone Access, Photos, Media, Internet, Juveniles, Failure to Protect (Juveniles), Juvenile Prisons

Photo of Prisoner Beaten by Georgia Gang Members Posted Online by Prisons are designed to be closed institutions, cut off from the rest of the world. Contraband cell phones, however, are opening them up and exposing the reality of what happens behind the walls. When Demetria Harris saw a photo …

al Qaida-Like Mobile Discussions & Potential Creative Uses, MI Bn OSINT Team, 2008

Publication • November 30, 2016

Filed under: Crime/Demographics, War on Terror, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring, Cell Phone Access

, OPS, TARGETING & EXPLOITATION 3 MOBILE PHONE SURVEILLANCE 4 VOICE CHANGERS FOR TERRORIST TELEPHONE CALLS? 5 POTENTIAL FOR TERRORIST USE OF TWITTER: A RED TEAMING PERSPECTIVE. 7 SAMPLE OF OTHER ...

How Chicago Police Convinced Courts to Let Them Track Cellphones Without a Warrant

Article • November 22, 2016

Filed under: Police Misconduct, Police Searches, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring, Police, Arrest Warrants

in the form of a digital analyzer.” In identical footnotes in each case, a digital analyzer is depicted as nothing more than a simple antenna that detects “signals emitted by the target telephone ...

PayTel v. FCC, DC, Petition for Review, Interstate ICS Rates, 2016

Brief • November 10, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

(27601) Post Office Box 1800 Raleigh, NC 27602 Telephone: (919) 839-0300 Facsimile: (919) 839-0304 Counselfor Petitioner Pay Tel Communications, Inc. November 9, 2016 335783 - 2 - FOR D$TCT ...

Centurylink v. FCC, DC, Petition for Review of FCC Order In re Interstate ICS Rates, 2016

Brief • November 10, 2016

Filed under: Federal Statutory Law, Telephones, Telephone Access

(incorporating relevant comments, reply comments, and ex pane filings from the prior ICS docket, CC Docket No. 96-128, into WC Docket No. 12-3 75); Implementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassjjlcation ...

Securus v. FCC, DC, Order Granting Stay, ICS Rates, 2016

Brief • November 2, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, Cell Phone Access

Securus v. FCC, DC, Order Granting Stay, ICS Rates, 2016 USCA Case #16-1321 Document #1644302 Filed: 11/02/2016 Page 1 of 2 United States Court of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT ____________ No. 16-1321 September Term, 2016 FCC-81FR62818 Filed On: November 2, 2016 Securus Technologies, Inc., Petitioner v. Federal …

Video Visitation Companies Try to Stop In-Person Visitation at Texas Jails

Article • November 1, 2016

Filed under: Jail Specific, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Privacy Act, Telephone Monitoring, Video Visitation, Family, Fathers in Prison, Mothers in Prison, Children of Prisoners

Video Visitation Companies Try to Stop In-Person Visitation at Texas Jails by Matthew Clarke In one of the latest attempts to squeeze money out of those least able to afford it, companies that specialize in providing phone and video visitation services to prisoners in Texas jails on a local monopolistic …

Wisconsin Jail Policies Unconstitutional But Not Enjoined

Article • November 1, 2016

Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Notice of Rules, Legality of Rules, Witnesses (Disciplinary Hearings), Hearing Officers, Notice of Charges, Notice of Hearing, Jail Specific, Telephones, Publications/Books, Mail Regulations, Due Process, Censorship

, and telephone procedures were unconstitutional. On January 17, 1973, the district court issued an opinion holding that all but the MCJ telephone policies were unconstitutional. First, the court found ...

Commonwealth Depatment of Telecommunications and Capble, MA, Address List, Peititon of Recipients, 2016

Brief • November 1, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Monitoring, Cell Phone Access

and Cable 1000 Washington Street, 8th fl. Suite 820, Boston MA 02118-6500 Telephone: 617-305-3580 Fax: 617-988-8267 Email: dtc.efiling@state.ma.us Sean Carroll Hearing Officer Department ...

ND DOC Rates 2017-2020

Kickback publication • November 1, 2016

Filed under: Organizing, Advocacy, Prison Reform, Criminal justice system reform, Telephones, Telephone Rates

ND DOC Rates 2017-2020 EXHIBIT B - Compensation Details 1. PRICING Telephone Rates CONTRACTOR will provide telephone services to the STATE and will charge the following rates (plus applicable taxes ...

NY: Prisoner's Abuse Claim Survives Motion to Dismiss

Article • October 31, 2016

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Eighth Amendment, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Settlements, Telephones, Failure to Train/Supervise, Mental Health, Denial of Religious Services

case, Smith sued because jail officials changed his telephone PIN number without notice. While that case was pending, Smith filed another case against Riker's Island alleging improper religious ...

Eighth Circuit Finds No Constitutional Right to Communicate in Chinese

Article • October 25, 2016

Filed under: Discrimination, Interpreters, Telephones, Mail, Mail Regulations, Due Process, Family

Eighth Circuit Finds No Constitutional Right to Communicate in Chinese by Lonnie Burton On August 15, 2016, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a case filed by a Chinese-born Missouri state prisoner who had his mail to and from China repeatedly rejected by prison officials. …

Prison-Area Cell Phone Companies Not Liable for Attempted Hit on Guard

Article • October 14, 2016

Filed under: Failure to Protect (General), Telephones, Cell Phone Access, Contractor Liability

Prison-Area Cell Phone Companies Not Liable for Attempted Hit on Guard by Matthew Clarke In a March 25, 2015, opinion, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that cell phone service providers and owners of cell towers in the area around a South Carolina prison were not liable for the …

Securus v. FCC, DC, Opp. to Motion for Stay, ICS Rates, 2016

Brief • October 13, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, First Amendment, rights

...............................................................................................8, 9 ADMINISTRATIVE MATERIALS Implementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassification and Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 17 FCC Rcd 21274 (2002 ...

Securus Technologies v. FCC, DC, Consolidated Opp to Motions for Stay, Telephone Rates, 2016

Brief • October 13, 2016

Filed under: Telephone Rates

Securus Technologies v. FCC, DC, Consolidated Opp to Motions for Stay, Telephone Rates, 2016 In the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT SECURUS TECHNOLOGIES, INC ...

Alabama Public Service Commission Enacts Prison, Jail Phone Reforms

Article • October 3, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016

Filed under: Prison Reform, Jail Specific, Telephones, Telephone Rates

on the underlying telecommunications technology associated with any telephone number.” This article highlights only the major provisions of the PSC’s 105-page July 2014 order; the full text is available ...

Judge Orders End to Recording of Attorney-Client Meetings at CCA’s Leavenworth Detention Center

Article • October 3, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Jail Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Attorney Client, Telephone Monitoring

Judge Orders End to Recording of Attorney-Client Meetings at CCA’s Leavenworth Detention Center by Derek Gilna The Kansas Federal Public Defenders’ Office has challenged a scheme whereby officials at a detention center in Leavenworth, Kansas operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) secretly video-recorded confidential attorney-client meetings. As a result, …

GTL v FCC, DC, Pet Intervenors Brief, Inmate Calling Services, 2016

Brief • September 29, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

a strong correlation between weakened prisoner bonds with their community and family, and the likelihood that they would re-offend,3 the Federal Bureau of Prisons sought to expand inmate telephone access ...

Global Tel Link v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America, DC, Amicus Brief by The "Wright Petitioners," Telephone Contact During Incarceration, 2016

Brief • September 29, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

a strong correlation between weakened prisoner bonds with their community and family, and the likelihood that they would re-offend,3 the Federal Bureau of Prisons sought to expand inmate telephone access ...