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Please Deposit All of Your Money: Kickbacks, Rates, and Hidden Fees in the Jail Phone Industry, Prison Policy Initiative, 2013

Publication • August 9, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

include the impact on jails makes it clear that the number of people victimized by high telephone rates and fees is far higher than previously understood. (For simplicity, we will continue to use the phrase ...

Maryland Court of Appeals: Police Must Have Warrant for "Stingray" Phone Tracking

Article • August 8, 2016

Filed under: Police Misconduct, Telephone Monitoring, FBI

Maryland Court of Appeals: Police Must Have Warrant for "Stingray" Phone Tracking by Derek Gilna According to criminal defense attorneys in Baltimore, Maryland, at least 200 individuals are now sitting in prison based upon illegally-obtained cell phone records obtained from the use of "stingray" tracking devices.  The suitcase-sized eavesdropping device …

Kaelin v. County of Riverside, CA, Consolidated Opp to MTD - Inmate Phone Systems, 2016

Brief • August 8, 2016

Filed under: Tax Law, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, Mail, First Amendment, rights

THE IMPOSITION OF THE UNLAWFUL TAX UNCONSTITUTIONALLY BURDENS PLAINTIFFS’ FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH In contrast to Defendants’ contentions, inmates do “have a First Amendment right to telephone access ...

Not So Securus

Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016

Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, Attorney Client, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

not include calls to attorney cell phone numbers. In other words, the 14,000 attorney calls are potentially just a small subset of the attorney-client calls that were hacked. In short, it turns out ...

Securus Faces Lawsuit Over Recorded Attorney Calls

Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016

Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, Attorney Client, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

Securus Faces Lawsuit Over Recorded Attorney Calls by Alex Friedmann On May 27, 2016, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Securus Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. District Court ...

New Jersey Prison Phone Class-action Suit Against Global Tel*Link Continues

Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

New Jersey Prison Phone Class-action Suit Against Global Tel*Link Continues by Derek Gilna A New Jersey federal district court denied a motion to dismiss filed by prison telecom giant Global Tel*Link (GTL) and its subsidiary DSI-ITI in a class-action lawsuit alleging predatory practices in providing phone service to New Jersey …

From the Editor

Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016

Filed under: Editorials, Telephones, Telephone Rates, Publications/Books, Mail Regulations, PLN Litigation, Censorship, First Amendment, PLN related

From the Editor by Paul Wright The Campaign for Prison Phone Justice, co-founded by the Human Rights Defense Center, has led the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to curb some of the more egregious abuses of the prison telecom industry. It has also helped focus increased attention from all sources, including …

Alabama Prisoners Bribed to Dance Nude for Doughnuts

Article • July 29, 2016

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Guard Misconduct, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Failure to Protect (General), Food, Jail Specific, Cell Phone Access, Failure to Train/Supervise, Staff Training

Alabama Prisoners Bribed to Dance Nude for Doughnuts by Three Alabama jail guards have been charged in a “dancing for doughnuts” practice. Pickens County Jail guards Demetrius Harris, Anthony Lavender, and Chance Draper were charged with felony ethics violations for coercing female prisoners to dance nude for donuts and cell …

HRDC comment to FCC re low phone rates at Davidson County, TN jail - July 2016

Publication • July 16, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, HRDC Publications

as the National Sheriffs’ Association (NSA) and its member sheriffs, alleging high costs for the provision of prison and jail telephone services; the high (but unsubstantiated) costs incurred by correctional ...