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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 ...

Cell Phones Confiscated from Prisoners Given to Charities

Article • September 25, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015

Filed under: Prisoner Property, Cell Phone Access

Cell Phones Confiscated from Prisoners Given to Charities by Christopher Zoukis Cell Phones Confiscated from Prisoners Given to Charities by Christopher Zoukis Thousands of cell phones seized from prisoners nationwide have been donated to charitable causes, including domestic violence programs and Cell Phones for Soldiers. Cell phones are considered contraband …

California Prisoner’s Conviction for Smuggling Tobacco Overturned

Article • April 9, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Cell Phone Access

California Prisoner’s Conviction for Smuggling Tobacco Overturned by Lonnie Burton California Prisoner’s Conviction for Smuggling Tobacco Overturned by Lonnie Burton A California state prisoner convicted of a felony offense for smuggling tobacco into prison has had his conviction reversed by a California appellate court, although a related conviction for smuggling …

HRDC letter in support of CA Assembly Bill 1876 March 2014

Publication • January 16, 2015

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, HRDC Publications

Bill 1876 which would prohibit a county jail from accepting a "commission" or other form of payment or kickback from a telephone company as an incentive to enter into a contract for the provision ...

Los Angeles County Jail Exploits Prisoners, Families with High Phone Costs

Article • December 3, 2014 • from PLN December, 2014

Filed under: Telephone Rates

Los Angeles County Jail Exploits Prisoners, Families with High Phone Costs by Los Angeles County Jail Exploits Prisoners, Families with High Phone Costs by Derek Gilna Officials with Los Angeles County’s jail system have been criticized by County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky for exploiting prisoners and their families by charging excessive …

San Francisco v. PCS and GTL, Settlement of Unlitigated Claim, Jail Phone Services, 2014

Brief • June 13, 2014

Filed under: Telephone Rates

San Francisco v. PCS and GTL, Settlement of Unlitigated Claim, Jail Phone Services, 2014 FILE NO. 140372 1 RESOLUTION NO. [Settlement of Claim - Public Communications Services, Inc., and Global Tel*Link Corporation - City to Receive $1,079,116] 2 3 Resolution approving the settlement of the unlitigated claim by City and …

Lyon v. ICE, CA, Order Granting Class Cert., ICE Phone Restrictions, 2014

Brief • April 16, 2014

Filed under: Immigration, Telephone Access

with telephone access at the 8 detention facilities. For example: 9 • A call can be completed “only if a live person answers the telephone and accepts the call.” 10 Compl. ¶ 43. This means that detainees ...

CDCR to Block Contraband Cell Phone Signals at all Facilities

Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013

Filed under: Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, Cell Phone Access, Guards/Staff, Guard Unions

CDCR to Block Contraband Cell Phone Signals at all Facilities by The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has awarded a six-year system-wide telephone contract ...

Abuse in Los Angeles Jails Leads to Investigations, Lawsuits and Eventual Reforms

Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Retaliation against Staff, Conditions of Confinement, Overcrowding, Exercise, Clothing, Jail Specific, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Telephone Access

that ordered the county to improve jail conditions – including overcrowding, inadequate exercise, and lack of clean clothing and telephone access. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had initially ...

California: Corrections Department Donates Confiscated Cell Phones to Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Organizations

Article • March 15, 2013

Filed under: Telephones, Cell Phone Access

California: Corrections Department Donates Confiscated Cell Phones to Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Organizations by In recognition of October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) announced plans to donate thousands of confiscated cell phones to organizations that help victims of domestic violence. In …

California Criminalizes Cell Phone Smuggling, Seeks Technology to Block Cell Phone Calls from Prisons

Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, Cell Phone Access

. The law provides that “a person who possesses with the intent to deliver, or delivers [to prisoners] any cel-lular telephone or other wireless communication device or any component thereof ...” is subject ...

California DOC Officials Enjoy Absolute Immunity From Tort Liability Under Civil Code

Article • September 15, 2011

Filed under: Private Prisons, Marantha Private Corrections, Telephone Rates, Judicial Immunity

), the same contractor that CDCR uses in its prisons. As in its prison contract, Global paid a hefty kickback from excess profits built into its prisoner-only telephone rate. CDCR transfers its Global kickback ...

California v. Niroula, CA, Def Mot for Order protecting attorney-client calls, sheriff illegal telephone monitoring, 2011

Brief • August 10, 2011

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

California v. Niroula, CA, Def Mot for Order protecting attorney-client calls, sheriff illegal telephone monitoring, 2011 Kaushal Niroula Defendant In Pro Per Booking # 200910575 Indio Jail P.O. Box ...

Federal Cell Phone Ban Becomes Law; California Bill Vetoed, then Re-Introduced

Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Federal Legislation

of the bill. A report on the effectiveness of the new federal law is due by August 2011. The report will also address the prison telephone rates charged by the BOP. [See: PLN, April 2011, p.1]. The California ...

Short-Lived Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Global Tel*Link in California, Then Secretly Settled

Article • March 15, 2011 • from PLN March, 2011

Filed under: Civil Procedure, Class Certification, Telephone Rates

Short-Lived Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Global Tel*Link in California, Then Secretly Settled by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim Sick and tired of being gouged by high prison phone rates, Nadia Alvarez and Rachel Fishenfeld, two California residents, filed a consumer class action suit against Global Tel*Link (GTL) in August …

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

California Class-Action Suit Reinstates $1.5 Million Illegally Siphoned From County Jail Inmate Welfare Fund

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

Filed under: Money/Property, Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Trust Accounts, Telephone Rates

ordered put in place for five years. Moreover, any kickbacks from telephone companies (estimated at $200,000) were to be paid to the IWF, not to the SCC general fund. Finally, the 21 page settlement ...