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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 …

Public Information Handbook, Attorney General of Texas, 2016

Publication • January 1, 2016

Filed under: Public Records, Freedom of Information Act, Telephone Access, Cell Phone Access, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

: Confidentiality of Certain Addresses, Telephone Numbers, Social Security Numbers, and Personal Family Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 1. Subsection (a)(1): Public Officials and Employees ...

California Officials Reverse Position after Receiving Prison Phone Company Contributions

Article • December 31, 2015 • from PLN January, 2016

Filed under: Government Misconduct, Telephone Rates

, where county officials received contributions from the telephone provider for the county jail, Global Tel*Link, which appear to have led two supervisors to end their opposition to GTL’s contract ...

HRDC FCC Comment re: Virginia DOC prison phone rate reduction-Dec 2015

Publication • December 31, 2015

Filed under: Telephone Rates, HRDC Publications

HRDC FCC Comment re: Virginia DOC prison phone rate reduction-Dec 2015 Human Rights Defense Center DEDICATED TO PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS December 31, 2015 The Honorable Tom Wheeler, Chairman Federal Communications Commission 445 12th St. S.W. Washington DC 20554 Re: Comment for WC Docket 12-375 Dear Chairman Wheeler: The Human Rights …

FCC Filing - GTL Petition for Stay Pending Judicial Review, DC, telephone rates, 2015

Brief • December 22, 2015

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

FCC Filing - GTL Petition for Stay Pending Judicial Review, DC, telephone rates, 2015 Before the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of Rates for Interstate Inmate ...

FCC Filing - Supplement to Public Securus Petition for Stay FTI Report, DC, telephone rates, 2015

Brief • December 22, 2015

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

FCC Filing - Supplement to Public Securus Petition for Stay FTI Report, DC, telephone rates, 2015 REDACTED – FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION FTI CONSULTING, INC. REPORT ON FINANCIAL IMPACT OF FCC SECOND ...

FCC Order denying GTL objection to providing confidential information to CenturyLink, DC, telephone rates, 2015

Brief • December 21, 2015

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

FCC Order denying GTL objection to providing confidential information to CenturyLink, DC, telephone rates, 2015 ...

FCC Leter to Securus re WC Docket No. 12-375, In the Matter of Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services, December 3, 2015

Brief • December 3, 2015

Filed under: Telephone Rates, PLN Litigation

FCC Leter to Securus re WC Docket No. 12-375, In the Matter of Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services, December 3, 2015 Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 December 3, 2015 DA 15-1382 Robert Pickens President Securus Technologies, Inc. 3000 Kellway Dr. #150 Carrolton, TX 75006 RE: WC Docket No. …

Breaking News! FCC Votes to Further Reform Prison Phone Industry

Article • December 2, 2015 • from PLN December, 2015

Filed under: Prison Reform, Telephone Rates

Breaking News! FCC Votes to Further Reform Prison Phone Industry by Carrie Wilkinson Breaking News! FCC Votes to Further Reform Prison Phone Industry by Carrie Wilkinson The cover story of the December 2013 issue of Prison Legal News was titled “FCC Order Heralds Hope for Reform of Prison Phone Industry.” …

UNODC, Handbook on Dynamic Security and Prison Intelligence, 2015

Publication • December 1, 2015

Filed under: Cell Searches, Prison/Common Area Searches, Visitor Searches, Videotaping, Security Systems, Terrorism, Telephone Monitoring, Mail, Staff Training

UNODC, Handbook on Dynamic Security and Prison Intelligence, 2015 Handbook on Dynamic Security and Prison Intelligence CRIMINAL JUSTICE HANDBOOK SERIES Cover images: Left and right: ©Photodisc.com, Centre: ©Neil Chapman UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME Vienna Handbook on Dynamic Security and Prison Intelligence CRIMINAL JUSTICE HANDBOOK SERIES UNITED NATIONS …

$54,000 Attorney Fee and Cost Award in Successful First Amendment Litigation

Article • October 27, 2015

Filed under: Telephone Access

rights action alleging the refusal to allow him to make telephone calls to his family in Romania and Jordan violated his rights. The defendants moved for summary judgment, claiming he failed to state ...

From the Editor

Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015

Filed under: Telephone Rates

, they will be issuing rules regulating all prison and jail telephone calls, including setting rate caps for debit and prepaid calls of $.11 per minute at prisons and $.14 to $.22 per minute at jails, plus banning most ...

Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders Files “Justice is Not for Sale Act”

Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015

Filed under: Private Prisons, Parole, Money/Property, Immigration, Telephone Rates

of inmate telephone and video service” that include rate caps and limits on ancillary fees, and that prohibit or restrict “the payment of commissions by providers of inmate telephone and video ...

Prisoner’s Right to Counsel Violated by Eavesdropping on Attorney Phone Calls

Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015

Filed under: Attorney Client, Attorney Calls

Prisoner’s Right to Counsel Violated by Eavesdropping on Attorney Phone Calls by Christopher Zoukis Prisoner’s Right to Counsel Violated by Eavesdropping on Attorney Phone Calls by Christopher Zoukis Charges against a Washington man awaiting trial on felony drug and stolen property charges were dropped by a Yakima County Superior Court …

From HRDC executive director Paul Wright, October 23, 2015, FCC Caps the Cost of Prison Phone Calls

Article • October 23, 2015

Filed under: Telephone Rates, PLN related

and bottom lines. Most of the reforms will go into effect within 90 days of publication in the Federal Register. We anticipate litigation by the hedge fund-owned prison telephone companies and efforts to evade ...

Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Letter to FCC, Prison Phone Reform Supporters, 2015

Publication • October 22, 2015

Filed under: Telephone Rates

costs, and are unnecessary. Congress has given the FCC special authority to address telephone rates in incarcerating institutions and it should use that authority to cap in-state prison phone call rates ...

Prisoner Phone Service Providers Cannot Block Call Routing Service Calls

Article • October 14, 2015

Filed under: Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

of telephone calls is antithetical to its fundamental goal of making available “rapid, efficient, Nation-wide and world-wide wire radio communications services with adequate facilities.” Current ...

FCC Fact Sheet: Ensuring Just Reasonable Fair Rates for Inmate Calling

Publication • September 30, 2015

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

, and fair, and penalizes callers who stay on the phone less than 15 minutes. Ensures access for people with disabilities o Requires providers to offer discounted rates for telephone relay service (TRS) calls ...