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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 ...

Audit Finds California Prison Receiver Broke State Law by Making No-Bid Contracts with Verizon

Article • September 15, 2009 • from PLN September, 2009

Filed under: DOC/BOP misconduct, Telephones, Telephone Rates

telephone and data lines. While the audit concluded that the state could not be certain that Prison Health Care Services had spent $26.7 million in public funds “prudently” or that it had received the test ...

Contraband Smuggling by Texas Prison Guards Rarely Punished Harshly

Article • September 15, 2009 • from PLN September, 2009

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, Criminal Prosecution, Telephone Access

Contraband Smuggling by Texas Prison Guards Rarely Punished Harshly by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A review conducted by a Houston newspaper concluded that a large quantity and variety of contraband is still being smuggled into Texas prisons by state prison guards, and those caught smuggling rarely receive harsh punishment. …

Florida’s Private Prisons Still Lack Meaningful Oversight

Article • August 15, 2009 • from PLN August, 2009

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Contractor Misconduct, Telephones, Telephone Rates

violations, it will train its staff in prison-related operation and management, private prisons will be accountable for performance of their programs, telephone rates will be set comparable to public prisons ...

Illinois Court of Appeals: Prisoner Has Standing to Sue Ameritech for Fraud

Article • August 15, 2009 • from PLN August, 2009

Filed under: Standing, Telephones, Telephone Rates

Illinois Court of Appeals: Prisoner Has Standing to Sue Ameritech for Fraud by On July 1, 2008, an Illinois Court of Appeals held that a prisoner had standing to bring a claim against Ameritech for consumer fraud. Johnnie Flournoy, an Illinois state prisoner at the Joliet Correctional Center, filed suit …

Nebraska: Tape-Recorded, Restricted-Calling Prison Telephone System Passes Constitutional Muster

Article • August 15, 2009 • from PLN August, 2009

Filed under: Injunctions, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Monitoring

Nebraska: Tape-Recorded, Restricted-Calling Prison Telephone System Passes Constitutional Muster by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Nebraska Court of Appeals has upheld ...

Connecticut Settles Overcrowding Suit

Article • July 15, 2009

Filed under: Overcrowding, Eighth Amendment, Settlements, Class Certification, Telephones, Telephone Access

the suit agreeing to, among other things, eliminate dormitory housing in a former card room, cap housing in each cell to no more than two prisoners, provide indoor and outdoor recreation, one telephone call ...

Outrageous phone rates devastate families of prisoners

Article • July 15, 2009

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

with their families and their communities. What's more, because the chance to speak with a loved one is perhaps the most important privilege a prisoner enjoys, officials condition telephone access on a clean prison ...

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 ...

Report Says New Mexico Prison Phone Companies Still Gouging Families

Article • June 15, 2009 • from PLN June, 2009

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

Report Says New Mexico Prison Phone Companies Still Gouging Families by Dave Maass Report Says New Mexico Prison Phone Companies Still Gouging Families by Dave Maass The phone is ringing; you pick it up. An operator announces it’s a collect call – your spouse, sibling, child – from prison. Will …

BOP Settles Suit Over Telephone Access, Electronic FOIA Claims

Article • June 15, 2009 • from PLN June, 2009

Filed under: Administrative Exhaustion, Disclosure of Records, Freedom of Information Act, Telephones, Telephone Access

BOP Settles Suit Over Telephone Access, Electronic FOIA Claims by The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has agreed to settle another lawsuit brought by PLN contributing writer, Brandon Sample.The ...

Indiana Court Denies Challenge to Monopolistic Prison Phone Contracts

Article • June 15, 2009 • from PLN June, 2009

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, Contractor Liability

by families and friends of prisoners who challenged prison telephone contracts as monopolistic and prison phone rates as oppressive. The appellate court held that it was not illegal for the Indiana Department ...

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 ...

Design of Prison Telephone Held Not To Infringe Patent

Article • April 15, 2009

Filed under: Telephone Access, Intellectual Property (Immunity/Liability), Mental Health, Suicides

Design of Prison Telephone Held Not To Infringe Patent by On June 18, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a judgment of non-infringement in a patent dispute over ...