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Prison Phone Companies Seek New Revenue Source in Electronic Messaging

Article • February 29, 2016

Filed under: JPay, Inc., Telephones, Telephone Rates, Video Visitation

bureaus and sheriff's departments. Nothing Like Email At least 10 companies providing services ranging from financial transactions to telephone calls now offer electronic messaging at hundreds of jails ...

Prison Policy Initiative Releases Report on Email Services for Prisoners

Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016

Filed under: Prison Reform, Computers, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Telephone Rates, Family

Prison Policy Initiative Releases Report on Email Services for Prisoners by Derek Gilna The non-profit, Massachusetts-based Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) has released a comprehensive study on communication options for prisoners, focusing on email services while also citing issues related to phone calls, visitation and postal mail. According to the January …

Oklahoma DOC, Sheriffs Challenge FCC’s Prison Phone Reforms

Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016

Filed under: Prison Reform, Telephones, Telephone Rates

Oklahoma DOC, Sheriffs Challenge FCC’s Prison Phone Reforms by Carrie Wilkinson A petition for review has been filed in the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the Second Order and Third Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking released by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on November 4, 2015, which made sweeping …

From the Editor

Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016

Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Prison Reform, Jail Specific, Education, Telephone Rates, Video Visitation, PLN related

From the Editor by Paul Wright One downside of publishing a magazine like Prison Legal News for 26 years is that in some respects we are not covering a one-off or isolated story but rather are reporting an ongoing and developing issue. This month’s cover story about the epic abuse, …

Hamden comments re Wright petition FCC phone rates 2008

Publication • February 24, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

Utilities Commission ruled in favor of providers of prisoner telephone services, allowing the companies to charge higher telephone rates to the friends and families of prisoners for local collect calls ...

State of OK v. FCC, DC, States Mot to Intervene in Support of Plf, telephone rates, 2016

Brief • February 24, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

State of OK v. FCC, DC, States Mot to Intervene in Support of Plf, telephone rates, 2016 USCA Case #16-1057 Document #1600691 Filed: 02/24/2016 Page 1 of 8 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS ...

Comments re Wright Petition FCC Phone Rates, NASUCA, 2009

Publication • February 24, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

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Global Tel Link v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America, DC, Motion for Stay of FCC Rule by Oklahoma, Telephone Contact During Incarceration, 2016

Brief • February 22, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

Global Tel Link v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America, DC, Motion for Stay of FCC Rule by Oklahoma, Telephone Contact During Incarceration, 2016 USCA Case #15-1461 ...

ABA Comments on Wright Petition FCC Phone Justice 2013

Publication • February 16, 2016

Filed under: Telephones

focused on telephone access. It provides: RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association encourages federal, state, territorial and local governments, consistent with sound correctional management, law ...

ABA Comments Re Wright Petition FCCPhone Rates, March 25, 2012

Publication • February 16, 2016

Filed under: Telephones

of institutional order and security and the protection of the public.” Current, widespread practices of using telephone service contracts to fund unrelated prison budget areas are in violation of the ABA Standards ...

ABA Comments Re Wright Petition FCCPhone Rates, January 15, 2009

Publication • February 16, 2016

Filed under: Telephones

Communications Commission to consider, inter alia, prescribing prisoner telephone rates. In the following year, we wrote on May 1, 2007 to encourage the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to “take meaningful ...

LASD Letter to Board re Inmate Telephone System, January 21, 2014

Publication • February 16, 2016

Filed under: Telephones

LASD Letter to Board re Inmate Telephone System, January 21, 2014 January 21, 2014 The Honorable Board of Supervisors County of Los Angeles 383 Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration Los Angeles ...

FCC Commissioner Clyburn Statement Re Martha Wright Ulandis Forte Sept 2012

Publication • February 15, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

on the telephone to stay connected. But they would soon be forced to terms with one of the stark realities of incarceration: prison payphone rates. Their story is shared by many families every day as approximately ...

Reply Comments to FCC on Wright Petition Phone Justice, 04-22, NASUCA, 2013

Publication • February 15, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

Spring, MD 20910 Telephone (301) 589-6313 Fax (301) 589-6380 April 18, 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. THE BENEFITS OF INMATE CALLING ARE UNCHALLENGED .... .............................. 2 II. THE FCC'S ...

FCC Proceeding, WC Docket No. 12-375, Notice of Ex Parte Presentation, 2015

Publication • February 12, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

on the issue of and a proposal for facility cost recovery. Mr. Wood met with the above FCC Staff members in person, while Mr. Baker attended the meeting via telephone. Baker discussed how his experience with ICS ...

LA PSC Letter re Jail and Prison Phone Rates, Louisiana Public Service Commission, 2015

Publication • February 12, 2016

Filed under: Telephone Rates

of the LPSC to get over the disgust I felt at the actions of commissioners and st.'tff during our latest discussion of inmate telephone rates. The Commission has now spent five years on this topic: two years ...

Global TelLink et al. v. FCC, DC, Opp Mot for Stay, telephone rates, 2016

Brief • February 12, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

Global TelLink et al. v. FCC, DC, Opp Mot for Stay, telephone rates, 2016 USCA Case #15-1461 Document #1598725 Filed: 02/12/2016 Page 1 of 24 In the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS ...

Ex Parte Notice to FCC (12-375), AL Public Service Commission, 2015

Publication • February 11, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

on the issue of and a proposal for facility cost recovery. Mr. Wood met with the above FCC Staff members in person, while Mr. Baker attended the meeting via telephone. Baker discussed how his experience with ICS ...

James v. GTL, NJ, Opinion, Telephone Terms of Service, 2016

Brief • February 11, 2016

Filed under: Trust Accounts, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

James v. GTL, NJ, Opinion, Telephone Terms of Service, 2016 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY BOBBIE JAMES, et al., Plaintiffs, v. GLOBAL TEL*LINK CORPORATION, INMATE ...

James v. GTL, NJ, Order on Motion to Compel Arbitration, Telephone Terms of Service, 2016

Brief • February 11, 2016

Filed under: Trust Accounts, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

James v. GTL, NJ, Order on Motion to Compel Arbitration, Telephone Terms of Service, 2016 Case 2:13-cv-04989-WJM-MF Document 117 Filed 02/11/16 Page 1 of 1 PageID: 1123 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ...