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HRDC comments to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau re Arbitration Agreements - Aug. 2016

Publication • August 22, 2016

Filed under: Money/Property, Trust Accounts, Telephones, HRDC Publications

that consumers must establish to receive telephone calls from loved ones in prison or jail, to place money on trust or commissary accounts used by prisoners to buy items within the facility and to release debit ...

Petitioners' Opposition to Securus Technologies' Request to be Removed from the Service List in DTC 11-16, Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts, 2016

Brief • August 19, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Media

Petitioners' Opposition to Securus Technologies' Request to be Removed from the Service List in DTC 11-16, Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts, 2016

Oseguenda v. Stanislaus County Public Safety Center, CA, Complaint and Demand for Trial, Due Process, Pretrial Detainees. 2016

Brief • August 16, 2016

Filed under: Discrimination, Racial Discrimination, Conditions of Confinement, Totality of Conditions, Exercise, Education, Telephone Access, Mental Health, Fourth Amendment, rights, Fourteenth Amendment, rights, Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment

CONDEMNATION NOTE: LAND CONDEMNATIONCASES, CASES,USE USETHE THELOCATION LOCATION OF THE TRACT OF LAND !NVOL VED. INVOLVED. Name, Address, and (C) Attorneys (c) Attorneys (Firm Name, and Telephone Number ...

Sheriff Letter to Board of Supervisors re inmate telephone system, LASD, 2016

Publication • August 12, 2016

Filed under: Jail Specific, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

. FOR INMATE TELEPHONE SYSTEM (ITS) AND SERVICES Call services, excluding the Ancillary Service Charges and FCCpermissible Taxes and regulatory fees listed in Exhibit C (Telephone Rates and Payment Schedule ...

Los Angeles Sheriff's Office Settles Visitor Beating Case for $1 Million

Article • August 11, 2016

Filed under: Visitor Searches, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Restraints, Cell Phone Access

Los Angeles Sheriff's Office Settles Visitor Beating Case for $1 Million by Derek Gilna Los Angeles County Jail deputies have a reputation for brutal treatment of prisoners, and have paid out millions of dollars in settlements as a result. However, even a man visiting his brother Robert at Men's Central …

Texas Guards and Prisoners Rarely Prosecuted for Contraband Cellphones

Article • August 10, 2016

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Telephones, Cell Phone Access

Texas Guards and Prisoners Rarely Prosecuted for Contraband Cellphones by Matthew Clarke According to an investigation conducted by the Texas Tribune, guards and prisoners are rarely prosecuted for the contraband cell phones found within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). The investigation discovered that only 5% of the cellphone …

Guard’s Suspension for Dragging Injured Maine Pretrial Detainee Upheld

Article • August 10, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Cell Phone Access

Guard’s Suspension for Dragging Injured Maine Pretrial Detainee Upheld by David Reutter Louisiana officials are resorting to unconventional tactics to combat the “international” problem of cellphones within its jails and prisons. Prisoner use of the contraband phones has become so widespread that rarely a day goes by that guards fail …

FCC Quashes Company's Blockage of Discounted Prisoner Call Plans

Article • August 10, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

incarcerated individuals from calling unauthorized numbers to prevent bypassing their significantly more expensive and monopolistic telephone network sold to correctional institutions in return for a share ...

Louisiana Prisoner Phone Charge Scandal Pushed to Closed Door Session

Article • August 10, 2016

Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, Telephones, Telephone Rates

placed surcharge fees on prisoner telephones behind closed doors. City Tele Coin serves about 30 parish and municipal jails around Louisiana. In 2006, the PSC refused to allow the company to add surcharge ...

In re Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services, DC, FCC Order on Reconsideration - Rate Caps, 2016

Brief • August 9, 2016

Filed under: Security Systems, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring

); Implementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassification and Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Petition for Rulemaking or, in the Alternative, Petition to Address Referral Issues ...

Prison Phone Policy, MN DOC, 2008

Publication • August 9, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, Attorney Calls

and adopted), parents and siblings (birth, step, adopted and half). Attorney calls - offender calls to verified attorneys. Telephone monitoring - the electronic tracking, recording, and listening to of offender ...

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 ...