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Virginia SCC Without Jurisdiction to Hear Prisoner Phone Rate Challenge

Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

, Jr., filed a complaint with the SCC alleging that M.C.I. Telecommunications Corporation (MCI) charged excessive rates for telephone service in the Commonwealth's prisons. The SCC entered a Final Order ...

California Class Action Lawsuit Targets Unauthorized Prison Phone Charges

Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004

Filed under: Class Certification, Telephones, Telephone Rates, Attorney Calls

California Class Action Lawsuit Targets Unauthorized Prison Phone Charges by A lawsuit currently pending in a California state court claims that certain providers of prison telephone ...

Washington Failure to Disclose Prison-Phone-Rate Suit Dismissed, State Supreme Court Grants Review

Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

Washington Failure to Disclose Prison-Phone-Rate Suit Dismissed, State Supreme Court Grants Review by Sam Rutherford Division I of the Washington State Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court dismissal of an action challenging phone companies' failure to disclose the rates for collect calls made by Washington prisoners. Relief was …

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 …

Fighting for Fair Phone Rates

Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Telephone Rates

Fighting for Fair Phone Rates by Deborah M Golden Fighting For Fair Phone Rates by Deborah M. Golden In 2000, a group of prisoners, loved ones of prisoners, and attorneys filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the high cost of collect calls …

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 ...

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, …