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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 ...

HRDC Comments to FCC re Rates for Inmate Calling Services - Dec 2013

Publication • February 9, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, HRDC Publications

services include “the provision of inmate telephone service in correctional institutions, and any ancillary services.” Further, pursuant to 47 U.S.C. § 201(b), “All charges, practices, classifications ...

Securus Technologies v. Chris Christie, NJ, AG Certification, Securus Phone Contracts Exhibits (2017)

Brief • February 9, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, Telephone Monitoring, First Amendment, First Amendment, rights

. for the the provision provision management system system .at at the telephone and and jail management inmate telephone theCape of an inmate Cape May May County County Correctional Center; and County Contract Contract ...

Revised Nationwide PLN Survey Examines Prison Phone Contracts, Kickbacks, PLN, 2011

Publication • February 8, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, PLN related

its prisoners to a different CCA facility. [See: PLN, March 2004, p.14]. “We find it hard to believe that they would shut down the prison over telephone rates. We had no interest in shutting the prison ...

HRDC FCC Reply Comment for Third FNPRM - Feb 2016

Publication • February 8, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, HRDC Publications

when determining the rate caps in the 3rd FNPRM. Three hundred percent. And this is in the context that no one else in America is paying $0.22 per minute for telephone service. Securus clearly has ...

State of Oklahoma v. Federal Communications Commission, 10th Circuit, Petition for Review, Prison Phone Systems, 2016

Brief • January 25, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, Prison Regulations

Martha Wright of Washington, D.C. petitioned this Commission for relief from exorbitant phone rates charged by inmate calling service (ICS) providers, so that she might afford telephone contact with her ...

HRDC FCC Comment for Third FNPRM - Jan 2016

Publication • January 19, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, HRDC Publications

critical times of incarceration. 3 There is also no argument that this is a recent creation and that prior to the late 1980s most prisoners enjoyed telephone access at very low rates. Only after Evercom ...

HRDC FCC comment on GTL and Mississippi - Oct 2015

Publication • January 18, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, HRDC Publications

of contracts to WAGGONER’S employer, GTL, for inmate telephone services at MDOC facilities. Specifically, on or about July 30, 2014 and on or about August 26, 2014, the defendant SAM WAGGONER, paid kickbacks ...

Louisiana Jail Phone Consultants Resign Due to Conflicts of Interest

Article • January 12, 2016

Filed under: Telephone Rates

Louisiana Jail Phone Consultants Resign Due to Conflicts of Interest by David Reutter Two consultants hired to analyze the cost of prisoner phone calls charged by Louisiana’s Sheriffs have resigned due to conflict of interest. The Louisiana Public Service Commission (PSC) held two hearings in 2012 on the prison phone …

Texas Begins Intercepting and Blocking Cell Phone Calls from Prisons

Article • January 7, 2016

Filed under: Telephone Monitoring

Texas Begins Intercepting and Blocking Cell Phone Calls from Prisons by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke In April 2013, Texas began intercepting cell phone calls originating in two of its largest prisons. The equipment installed at the Stiles Unit in Beaumont and the McConnell Unit in Beeville is intended to …