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New Epidemic: Contraband Cell Phones in Prison Cells

Article • February 15, 2011 • from PLN February, 2011

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, Telephone Access, Cell Phone Access

New Epidemic: Contraband Cell Phones in Prison Cells by Mark Wilson For decades, prison officials across the U.S. have lined their pockets with multi-million dollar kickbacks from telephone ...

Homeland Security Inspector General’s Report Finds Additional Controls Needed to Ensure Prisoners’ Access to Phones at ICE Facilities

Article • February 15, 2011 • from PLN February, 2011

Filed under: Immigration, Telephones, Telephone Access

the financial data they are required to review. A 2007 audit by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) also found pervasive problems at ICE facilities related to telephone access by immigrant detainees ...

Washington Commission Finds AT&T is Prison Collect Call Provider

Article • December 15, 2010 • from PLN December, 2010

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

); and CenturyTel Telephone Utilities, Inc. (CenturyTel), in the Superior Court of Washington for King County. Plaintiffs alleged that between June 1996 and December 31, 2000, they received collect calls from ...

Reach Out and Defraud Someone: Oregon Jail Prisoners Commit Phone Scams

Article • November 15, 2010 • from PLN November, 2010

Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

Reach Out and Defraud Someone: Oregon Jail Prisoners Commit Phone Scams by Mark Wilson A fifteen-minute collect call from the Multnomah County jail in Portland, Oregon costs $2.35, billed to the party who accepts the call. Between May 2006 and April 2009 those calls generated $3.5 million in revenue for …

Exorbitant Prisoner Phone Rates Pass New York Constitutional Scrutiny

Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

– affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit arguing that the contract between the New York State Department of Correctional Services (NYDOCS) and MCI Worldcom Communications for prison telephone services violated ...

Alternative Prisoner Phone Service Company Files Unsuccessful Suit

Article • May 15, 2010 • from PLN May, 2010

Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, Civil Procedure, State Law Claims, Administrative Exhaustion, Telephone Rates

of the nation’s largest prison and jail telephone service providers filed a federal lawsuit alleging violation of the Federal Communications Act. The suit was filed by Millicorp, a Florida-based company ...

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rules No Privacy Right Exists for Jail Phone Calls

Article • May 15, 2010

Filed under: Disciplinary Hearings, Self Incrimination, Evidence, Telephone Monitoring

subpoena. The Suffolk County grand jury subpoenaed the recordings of the telephone conversations of a specific prisoner at the jail. The sheriff filed a motion to quash, citing a ruling from a different ...

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 ...

California AG’s Spokesman Resigns After Caught Taping Phone Conversations

Article • April 15, 2010 • from PLN April, 2010

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Telephone Monitoring

California AG’s Spokesman Resigns After Caught Taping Phone Conversations by Michael Brodheim Just days after being accused of violating state law by secretly recording telephone ...

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 ...

Third-Party Calling Disconnects at Jail Net $1.25 Million Settlement; Customers Get Nothing

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

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Telephone Rates

Third-Party Calling Disconnects at Jail Net $1.25 Million Settlement; Customers Get Nothing by by David M. Reutter When it comes to prison and jail telephone services, it’s all about how ...

Judge Rejects Privacy Suit By Former Prison Employee

Article • January 15, 2010

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, State Law Claims, Telephone Monitoring, Employee Litigation

Barker’s contact with a recently released parolee. Dahl’s wife, Laura Dahl, worked at the telephone company servicing Barker’s telephone line. Dahl noticed that Barker had run up a $1,500 bill calling ...

Calls over Monitored Phone to Attorney not Protected by Sixth Amendment

Article • January 15, 2010

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Attorney Client, Telephone Monitoring

discussed the plot over the telephone at a CCA facility. The government obtained copies of Eye’s phone calls from CCA, but the recordings CCA turned over contained calls Eye made to his attorney ...

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 …

Washington Prisoner’s Privacy Rights Not Violated by Recording Jail Phone Calls

Article • December 15, 2009

Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Telephone Monitoring

Washington Prisoner’s Privacy Rights Not Violated by Recording Jail Phone Calls by Division One of the Washington State Court of Appeals has held that recording a prisoner’s jail telephone ...

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 …

Mississippi Prisoners Make Collect Call for Jesus

Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

collected from prisoner telephone calls to fund a Jail and Prison Ministry. Since the late 1990s, the Good News Jail and Prison Ministry has provided church services at the Lauderdale County Jail, funded ...

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 ...