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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 ...

Illinois Phone Suit Dismissed

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

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

Illinois Phone Suit Dismissed by In the August, 1999, issue of PLN we reported that a class action suit had been filed in federal court in Illinois challenging the extortionate phone rates charged to those who accept collect calls from prisoners. On March 23, 2000, federal district court judge William …

New Mexico Private and State Prison Phone Rates Challenged

Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Esmor/CSC, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Cornell Corrections, Civil Procedure, State Law Claims, Telephone Rates, Contractor Liability

New Mexico Private and State Prison Phone Rates Challenged by Two separate state court class action lawsuits have challenged the excessive phone rates charged to people who accept collect calls from New Mexico state prisoners. The first lawsuit, Valdez v. Wackenhut Corrections Corporation, was filed on December 30, 1999, in …

Class Action Suits Challenge Rip-Off Prison and Jail Phone Rates

Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

, the Illinois counties of DuPage, Cook, and Kane and telephone companies AT&T, Invisions Telecom, MCI Telecommunications Corporation and Consolidated Communications Public Services, Inc. The plaintiffs allege ...

FCC Requires Rate Disclosure for Prison Phones

Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

shall: (i) Identify itself, audibly and distinctly, to the consumer before connecting any interstate, domestic, in interexchange telephone call and disclose immediately hereafter how the consumer may ...

Kentucky Utilities Commission Reduces Prison and Jail Phone Rates

Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

of an operator Surcharge Rate for Collect Telephone Calls from Confinement Facilities; and Obligations of Inmate Phone Service Providers to Call Recipients Regarding Notice of Blocking and Billing Procedures ...

Washington v. Reno, KY, DOJ Report, Telephone Access in Prisons, 1999

Brief • 1999

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

Washington v. Reno, KY, DOJ Report, Telephone Access in Prisons, 1999 Criminal Calls: Review of BOPs Management of Inmate Telephone Privileges Page 1 of 4 USDOJ/OIG Special Report CRIMINAL CALLS ...

Colorado Supreme Court Holds Utility Commission Lacks Jurisdiction Over Prison Phone Gouging

Article • November 15, 1998 • from PLN November, 1998

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

Telephone System (ITS) implemented by the Colorado DOC and Sprint Communications Company violated state public utilities law by overcharging for prisoner calls. The PUC dismissed the petition, holding it had ...

Phone Profits 'Benefit' Jail Detainees

Article • October 15, 1998 • from PLN October, 1998

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

Phone Profits 'Benefit' Jail Detainees by The Stanislaus County (CA) Jail has a contract with Correctional Communication Corp., a private telephone company that caters to the Prison ...

NJ Prisoners Refuse to Swallow PINs

Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998

Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

memo that all Trenton State prisoners would now be required to complete and submit telephone IPIN [Individual Personal Identification Number] forms, listing ten names and phone numbers ...

MCI Refund to Florida Prisoner Families

Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998

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

MCI Refund to Florida Prisoner Families by Friends and family of Florida prisoners may be entitled to $190,000 worth of free telephone calls under a recommendation issued ...

Letter of Apology from TCI

Article • July 15, 1998 • from PLN July, 1998

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

Letter of Apology from TCI by Reader Mail Dear PLN , We are aware of the difficulties our customers have had over the past several months in attempting to obtain service from us. Demand has been so great that, because of being underfunded and understaffed, we were not able to …

TCI Breaks 'Inmate Telephone System' Stranglehold

Article • January 15, 1998 • from PLN January, 1998

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

: (Obviously, your mileage may vary local and long distance telephone rates vary from place to place). It cost my wife about $40 in various charges to get the TCI service hooked up. TCI says this is high; most ...

Prisoner Calls Big Business in CA

Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

with "public pay telephones." Yet the "public" pays only a $1.05 surcharge when using a pay phone. Only those accepting collect calls from CA prisoners are forced to pay the $3.00 surcharge. Prisoners' families ...

Illinois DOC Phone System Upheld

Article • May 15, 1997 • from PLN May, 1997

Filed under: Standing, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, Telephone Monitoring, Qualified Immunity

on prisoners' telephone access may violate the First and Fourteenth Amendment. Tucker v. Randall, 948 F.2d 388, 391 (7th Cir. 1991). Denial of attorney telephone calls, furthermore, would run afoul of the Sixth ...