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Evans v. Inmate Calling Services, NV, Report and Recommendation, Atty Call Monitoring, 2011

Brief • July 19, 2011

Filed under: Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

access restricted for safety and security reasons. Ex. 18, #205-18, pp. 2-3. AR 722.07(1.2-1.3): Inmate legal access (effective date 9/6/03) 1.1 All inmates are to use the unit or yard telephones for legal ...

Judge Recommends Denial of Suppression Motion Related to Recordings Obtained from CCA

Article • May 15, 2010

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Informants (Disciplinary Hearings), Evidence, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

conversations made by Eye. CCA turned the conversations over to the government, but the discs also contained recordings of calls between Eye and his lawyer. The attorney calls were not segregated. Prior ...

Andersen v Becker Co. MN Settlement Transaction of Settlement Attorney Calls Monitored 2010

Brief • May 4, 2010

Filed under: Attorney Calls

Andersen v Becker Co. MN Settlement Transaction of Settlement Attorney Calls Monitored 2010 CASE 0:08-cv-05687-ADM-RLE Document 82 Filed 05/04/10 Page 1 of 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT ...

Call Your Attorney from Jail, Go to Prison

Article • March 15, 2010 • from PLN March, 2010

Filed under: Attorney Client, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

at an Oakland, California jail. In Broward County, the sheriff settled a class-action suit that was filed after two prisoners learned their supposedly “privileged” attorney calls were not so privileged after all ...

Army Prisoners Isolated, Denied Right to Legal Counsel

Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010

Filed under: Political Prisoners, Attorney Client, Telephones, Telephone Access, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring, Publications/Books, Mail Regulations, Legal Mail, Attorney Visits, PLN Litigation, Access to Media, Censorship, Military Law, Military Prisons

the entire time, which obviously negates any compliance with attorney-client privilege. And presumably the phone call was taped (all of the other brigs have special rooms for attorney calls, that have phone ...

Andersen v. Becker County, MN, Settlement, Monitoring of Atty Calls, 2010

Brief • January 11, 2010

Filed under: Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

Andersen v. Becker County, MN, Settlement, Monitoring of Atty Calls, 2010 CASE 0:08-cv-05687-ADM-RLE Document 82 Filed 05/04/10 Page 1 of 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA -----------------------------------------------------------) KENNETH E. ANDERSEN and ) CIVIL ACTION DELL D. HOLM, on behalf of ) NO. 08-5687 (ADM/RLE) themselves and all others …

Obama Administration Accused Again of Concealing Bush-Era Crimes

Article • October 15, 2009

Filed under: Government Misconduct, Attorney Client, Freedom of Information Act, Terrorism, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

Obama Administration Accused Again of Concealing Bush-Era Crimes by Matt Renner Monday 12 October 2009 by: Matt Renner, t r u t h o u t | Report President Obama promised to usher in a new era of government transparency when he was sworn into office nine months ago. On …

Andersen v. Becker County, MN, Order, Monitoring of Atty Calls, 2009

Brief • September 28, 2009

Filed under: Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

/09 Page 6 of 29 Officer Baumann also testified that after he listens to an attorney call, he looks through the remainder of the call log in storage and deletes all the calls to that number. Id. at 140 ...

No Fourth Amendment Violation for Monitoring Attorney-Client Conversations

Article • July 15, 2009

Filed under: Police Searches, Criminal Prosecution, Conspiracy, Attorney Client, Attorney Misconduct, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

No Fourth Amendment Violation for Monitoring Attorney-Client Conversations by When a prisoner consents to the monitoring of calls over a jailhouse telephone, no Fourth Amendment violation ...

Washington DOC - JPay Contract 2009-2012

Kickback publication • 2009

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

for the facility related to the affected Service, via telephone, paging and confirmatory email or fax. In an Emergency where there is a potential danger of destruction of a material portion of Contractor's Equipment ...

Suit Filed Over Minnesota Jail’s Secret Recording of Privileged Phone Calls

Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009

Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Attorney Client, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

Suit Filed Over Minnesota Jail’s Secret Recording of Privileged Phone Calls by Matthew Clarke Suit Filed Over Minnesota Jail’s Secret Recording of Privileged Phone Calls by Matt Clarke On October 15, 2008, a Minneapolis law firm filed a civil rights suit in federal district court alleging that attorney-client phone calls …

Sandin Inapplicable to Pretrial Detainees

Article • August 15, 2008

Filed under: Dental Care, Escapes, Strip Cells, Restraints, Attorney Calls, Mail, Mail Regulations, Ad-Seg Hearings, Access to Media

Sandin Inapplicable to Pretrial Detainees by Procedural Due Process--Disciplinary Proceedings (920): Sandin does not apply to detainees, who are entitled to procedural due process in disciplinary proceedings. Here there was some evidence because staff said the plaintiff had confessed. Procedural Due Process--Administrative Segregation (921): Placement of an escape risk in …

Authorities Listen in on Attorney-Client Calls at Jails in FL, CA and TX

Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008

Filed under: Criminal Prosecution, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

Department claimed the attorney calls had been recorded due to an “inadvertent glitch” in the phone system, according to the Union Tribune. The system was not supposed to record calls placed to phone numbers ...

Right to Consult, Hire Counsel Well Established and Constitutionally Protected

Article • August 15, 2008

Filed under: Attorney Client, Attorney Calls, Qualified Immunity, Mail, Legal Mail, Attorney Visits

Right to Consult, Hire Counsel Well Established and Constitutionally Protected by At 953-54: The right to hire and consult an attorney is protected by the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech, association and petition. ... It has long been recognized that the First Amendment prohibits the state from interfering …

Monitoring and Limiting Phone Calls by Kansas Prisoners Upheld

Article • May 15, 2008

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

to contact such "privileged persons" on a case by case basis. These calls are subject to monitoring. Courts are divided over whether there is any First Amendment right to telephone access at all. The court ...

GAO Audit: Alien Detention Facilities Suffer Continuing Deficiencies

Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007

Filed under: Government Misconduct, Overcrowding, Attorneys, Attorney Client, Stun Guns/Tasers, Dogs, Immigration, Telephone Access, Attorney Calls

. These included telephone access, medical care, holding room procedures, use of force, food service, recreation, access to legal materials and grievance procedures. The most persistent problem was inadequate ...

Sawchuck v. Jenne, FL, Order on SJ, Attorney-Client Communications, 2007

Brief • September 21, 2007

Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Attorney Client, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

to telephone access 419 F. Supp. 2d 820 836 (E.D. Va. 2005) (prison See also U. S. v. Lentz, policy of recording and monitoring all inmate telephone calls did not infringe Plaintiffs Sixth Amendment rights ...

Government Segregates Muslim Prisoners Restricts Phone Calls and Visits

Article • July 15, 2007

Filed under: Political Prisoners, Religious Discrimination, Administrative Procedures Act (Federal), Interpreters, Telephones, Telephone Access, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring, Mail Regulations, Federal Legislation

Management Unit (CMU), and is located in the medium security federal prison at Terre Haute, Indiana. Its occupants are almost entirely Muslims. Under the CMU program, telephone communications must ...

Florida’s Broward County Jail: Abuse and Misconduct As Usual

Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007

Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Criminal Prosecution, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

recorded all phone calls, including privileged calls between prisoners and their lawyers. A BSO official claimed the recording was due to a "glitch" in the phone system, and only one attorney call had been ...

Attorney/Client Privilege Voided by Including Third Persons in Conversation

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Attorney Client, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

, who argued the trial court abused its discretion by admitting testimony of his former attorney and a tape recording of a telephone conversation with that attorney. Black called his sister, who ...