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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 ...

Administrative Exhaustion Required in Pre-PLRA BOP Phone Suit

Article • January 15, 2004 • from PLN January, 2004

Filed under: Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Settlements, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

of Prisons (BOP), including telephone access and rates and billing of prisoners and their families. The consolidated cases, Washington v. Reno, US DC D KY, Civil Action Nos. 93-217 and 93-290, were settled ...

Scandal-Ridden, Bankrupt MCI WorldCom Wins No-Bid California Prisoner Phone Contract

Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Telephone Rates

by the California Department of General Services to MCI WorldCom, a telephone conglomerate whose recent bankruptcy exposed the largest accounting fraud in US business history - $11 billion. The non-competitive award ...

Nebraska Prisons Get Progressive Phone Contract

Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

digital telephone technology cost up to five international units a minute. The prisoner phone system has digital switching with sophisticated security features. All calls are digitally recorded ...

New Mexico Supreme court Affirms Dismissal of Phone Rate Suit

Article • June 15, 2003 • from PLN June, 2003

Filed under: Mootness, Telephone Rates, Immunity/Liability, Sovereign Immunity, State Legislation

dismissal of an excessive phone rates case for failure to state a claim. Recipients of collect telephone calls from New Mexico jails and prisons brought suit for damages and injunctive relief against state ...

San Mateo County Sues California Jail Phone Service Providers

Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003

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

San Mateo County Sues California Jail Phone Service Providers by San Mateo County Sues California Jail Phone Service Providers On July 7, 2002, the county of San Mateo, California, brought suit against Pacific Bell and AT&T alleging they cheated the county out of millions of dollars earmarked for a fund …

Virginia Law Repeals Phone Rate Ruling

Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, State Legislation

on prison phone rates by the State Corporation Commission (SCC). Robert Lee Jones, a Virginia state prisoner, filed a complaint with the SCC concerning the rates charged consumers for collect telephone ...

New Mexico Caps High Telephone Rates

Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, State Legislation

New Mexico Caps High Telephone Rates by The governor of New Mexico signed a bill in February 2001, prohibiting prisons from profiting on prisoners' phone calls, which was exceeding 10 times ...

High Cost of Prison Telephone Calls Goes to Illinois State Court

Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002

Filed under: Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Civil Procedure, State Law Claims, Standing, Telephone Rates, Qualified Immunity

High Cost of Prison Telephone Calls Goes to Illinois State Court by In a characteristically colorful opinion from Judge Richard Posner, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ...

Prison Phone Rate Case Remanded to South Carolina State Court

Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002

Filed under: Civil Procedure, State Law Claims, Venue, Telephone Rates

who have accepted telephone calls from prisoners. Prisoners have no choice of telephone service provider, as DOC contracts for the services. Plaintiffs filed suit under various South Carolina statutes ...

MCI WorldCom Investigated in Georgia for Phone Overcharges; State Senator Involved

Article • April 15, 2002 • from PLN April, 2002

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

MCI WorldCom Investigated in Georgia for Phone Overcharges; State Senator Involved by Lonnie Burton MCI WorldCom owns the exclusive contract to provide phone services to the 45,000 prisoners incarcerated in the State of Georgia. Of course, the prisoners are only allowed to place collect calls, and have no choice on …

$522,458 Rebate Ordered in California Prisoner Phone Overcharges

Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001

Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, Telephones, Telephone Rates, Contractor Liability

contracts to the highest bidder; that is, to the bidder who offers CDC the greatest kickback. These reports state that this kickback amounts to a whopping 4044% of the gross telephone revenue billed ...

California Racial Segregation Case Reversed; Phone Claim Dismissed

Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001

Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Civil Procedure, Limitations, Conspiracy (Civil Procedure), Telephone Rates

of Johnson’s telephone conspiracy claims holding that a prisoner’s First Amendment right to telephone access is subject to reasonable limitations and that prisoners are not entitled to a specific telephone rate ...

Kentucky Phone Rate Ruling

Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001

Filed under: Injunctions, Telephone Rates, Immunity/Liability, Municipal Liability, Contractor Liability

Kentucky Phone Rate Ruling by A federal district court in Kentucky held that the filed rate doctrine barred any claims for money damages against Phone Company and county jail defendants. However, injunctive relief was still available. The court questioned the legality of an exclusive service provider contract. In the August, …

Work Stoppage at Idaho CCA Prison

Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Organizing, Work Strikes, Grooming Rules, Telephone Rates

to more stringent rules at the new CCA prison south of Boise, including a prohibition on beards and higher telephone call charges. The work-stoppage prompted an immediate response from state prison ...

IL Prison Phone Ruling Published

Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

IL Prison Phone Ruling Published by In the June 2000, issue of PLN we reported that a federal district court in Illinois had dismissed a class action lawsuit challenging the phone rates charged to consumers who accept phone calls from prisoners in Illinois prisons and jails. The court's ruling is …

Judd v. AT&T, WA, Commissioner's Ruling Dismissing Appeal, Phone Rates, 2001

Brief • February 6, 2001

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

) ) ) ) ) Respondents, ) ) ) v. ) AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH ) COMPANY, GTE NORTHWEST, INC.. ) CENTURYTEL TELEPHONE UTILITIES, INC.,) NORTHWEST TELECOMMUNICATIONS, ) INC., d/b/a PTI COMMUNICATIONS. INC., ) U.S ...

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 ...

WA and IN Prison Phone Rates Challenged

Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

are: American Telephone and Telegraph,GTE Northwest, Centurytel Telephone Utilities, Northwest Telecommunications, U.S. West and T-Netix. In 1998 these companies gave the Washington DOC 45% of their gross billed ...

West Virginia Prisoners Protest Visit/Phone Restrictions

Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000

Filed under: Prison Industries, Prison Rebellion, Work Strikes, Prisoner Privileges, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

in telephone service, and demanded that prisoners locked-down in the Quilliams II unit (a "supermax" segregation unit) be given back lost privileges. Warden Painter agreed to restore privileges ...