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California Makes Calls Free for State Prisoners and Juvenile Detainees, Prohibits Telecom Kickbacks to Prisons and Jails

Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023

Filed under: Telephone Rates, Juvenile Offenses/Offenders, Kickback Scheme

California Makes Calls Free for State Prisoners and Juvenile Detainees, Prohibits Telecom Kickbacks to Prisons and Jails by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart On September 29, 2022, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed S.B. 1008 into law, barring government agencies in the state from collecting any part of the revenue …

FTC-Unfair of Deceptive Fees ANPR, Feb. 2023

Publication • February 8, 2023

Filed under: Money/Property, Telephone Rates

Fed. Comm’cns Comm’n, “Telephone Service for Incarcerated Individuals” (Dec. 20, 2022), available at https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telephone-service-incarcerated-individuals; see also Wagner ...

Welsh Prisoner Used Phone Hidden in Rectum to Snag Guards with “Flirty” Calls

Article • February 7, 2023

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Guard Misconduct, Cell Searches, Cell Phone Access

Welsh Prisoner Used Phone Hidden in Rectum to Snag Guards with “Flirty” Calls by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott A former guard and a former nurse at a prison in the United Kingdom – who both fell for “flirty” calls on a contraband cellphone from a “Romeo inmate,” …

Linear v. Securus Technologies Dba Jpay LLC, WA, Statement of Claims, Unfair Charges, 2022

Brief • December 30, 2022

Filed under: JPay, Inc., Telephone Rates

By: s/ Roger Townsend Roger M. Townsend, WSBA # 25525 Mynor R. Lopez, WSBA #59918 1000 Second Avenue, Suite 3670 Seattle, WA 98104 (206) 652-8660 Telephone (206) 652-8290 Facsimile bdonckers@bjtlegal.com ...

New York City Jails Admit Illegally Recording Over 2,200 Attorney-Client Phone Calls

Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022

Filed under: Attorney Calls, Recorded Calls

;it is not the Department’s policy to record confidential attorney calls.” But he called it “worth noting” that all calls include “a pre-recorded admonishment” warning that it is being ...

Maine Caps Price of Phone Calls in State Prisons and Jails

Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022

Filed under: Telephone Rates

free weekly minutes for attorney calls and 30 more minutes for other calls, anytime their account balance falls below ten dollars. Randall Liberty, DOC’s ironically named commissioner, said ...

The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Tablet Advertising That Can Also Issue Discipline

Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022

Filed under: Telephone Access, Telephone Monitoring, Securus

facility, does not have a trustee account, calling account, prepaid account or other means by which to pay for telephone calls,” Securus writes in the introduction to its patent. “The detainee ...

Prison Phone Rights- Testimony of Paul Wright-Sept. 2022

Publication • September 19, 2022

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, Telephone Monitoring

“stands as a 9 sharp contrast to traditional voice-only calling services, where the return on correctional facility 10 investments is largely limited to the cost and reliability of telephone calls ...

Indiana Caps Phone Rates in State Prisons and Jails

Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022

Filed under: Telephone Rates

Indiana Caps Phone Rates in State Prisons and Jails by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye On July 1, 2022, a new Indiana law took effect that caps the price charged for phone calls in state prisons and jails. With the change, those held by the state Department of Corrections …

California Court Sides With Securus in Challenge to CDCR Contract, Dealing Only Temporary Setback to GTL

Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022

Filed under: Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Telephone Rates, Securus, Global Tel*Link Corp

to exceed it for video calls and international telephone calls. In this way, Respondents granted GTL an unfair advantage the California law proscribes.” As the Court determined that a writ of mandate ...

Githieya v. Global Tel Link Corp, GA,Order Granting Settlement, Breach of Contract, 2022

Brief • August 30, 2022

Filed under: Telephones, Breach of Contract, Global Tel*Link Corp

of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). 5 14 Case 1:15-cv-00986-AT Document 369 Filed 08/30/22 Page 15 of 25 total value of the relief provided to a class in a settlement agreement. Id. at 774-75. Both ...

Githieya v. Global Tel Link Corp, GA, Judgment, Breach of Contract, 2022

Brief • August 30, 2022

Filed under: Telephones, Breach of Contract, Global Tel*Link Corp

Githieya v. Global Tel Link Corp, GA, Judgment, Breach of Contract, 2022 Case 1:15-cv-00986-AT Document 370 Filed 08/30/22 Page 1 of 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION BENSON GITHIEYA, et al., Plaintiff(s), CIVIL ACTION FILE vs. NO. 1:15-cv-986-AT GLOBAL TEL LINK CORP, Defendant(s). JUDGMENT This …

The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Monitoring Online Purchases of Inmates’ Family and Friends

Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022

Filed under: Telephone Monitoring, Securus

on the problem. Earlier this year, Securus received approval for a patent describing a method of “linking controlled-environment facility residents and associated non-resident telephone numbers to ... e ...

Mission Creep: Prison Telecoms Scramble to Extend Their Reach

Article • July 13, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022

Filed under: Telephone Rates, Global Tel*Link Corp

to use the telephone. Flat rate calling has long been the norm in the phone industry that does not rely on exploiting prisoners yet prison telecoms tell the public, regulators and legislators that charging ...

From the Editor

Article • July 13, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Censorship

From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright PLN has been reporting on the prison phone industry for at least the past 30 years, from its inception to its current stranglehold on most means of human contact between prisoners and the outside world. This month’s cover story by Alan …

Prison Phone Giant GTL Cuts Prices in Miami-Dade Jails, But Only After County Taps COVID-19 Relief Funds to Replace Forfeited Kickbacks

Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022

Filed under: COVID-19, Telephone Rates, Global Tel*Link Corp

of incarceration to those who were caged and their families, and prison telecom companies entered the scene. Levine Cava says the county is exploring options to provide free telephone calls to prisoners in its jails ...

Florida Justice Institute-Objections to Form DC6-20001, May 2022

Publication • May 17, 2022

Filed under: Telephones

created to implement the provisions of the amendments to Rule 33-602.205 concerning unmonitored attorney calls. We are concerned that the form was released to the public well after the text of the rule ...

State of Maine-An Act to Prohibit Excessive Telephone Charges in Maine Jails and Prisons, 2022

Publication • April 15, 2022

Filed under: Telephones

State of Maine-An Act to Prohibit Excessive Telephone Charges in Maine Jails and Prisons, 2022 APPROVED CHAPTER APRIL 15, 2022 615 BY GOVERNOR PUBLIC LAW STATE OF MAINE _____ IN THE YEAR OF OUR ...

Prison Telecom Giant GTL Agrees to $67 Million Settlement in Class-Action Over Inactive Account Seizure Policy

Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022

Filed under: Settlements, Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Telephone Rates, Global Tel*Link Corp

to ViaPath Technologies on January 4, 2022, provides telephone service to prisoners in almost 2,000 prisons and jails spanning all 50 states, holding a monopoly in most, just as its major competitors do. [See ...

$900,000 Settlement in Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Securus Recorded California Prisoner-Attorney Calls

Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022

Filed under: Settlements, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring, Class Actions

$900,000 Settlement in Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Securus Recorded California Prisoner-Attorney Calls by David Reutter Company Walks From Similar Case in Maine by David M. Reutter ...