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Is There A Winning Argument Against Excessive Rates For Collect Calls From Prisoners?

Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005

Filed under: Reviews, Telephones, Telephone Rates

. Dannenberg We all know about how prisons and jails conspire with telephone companies to bilk recipients of prisoner phone calls via exorbitant chargesswollen by kickbacks approaching 60%but how does one ...

Illinois Appeals Court Reinstates Prisoner's Telephone Disconnect Suit

Article • December 15, 2004 • from PLN December, 2004

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

Illinois Appeals Court Reinstates Prisoner's Telephone Disconnect Suit by The Illinois Court of Appeals for the Third District reinstated a prisoner's lawsuit against Ameritech over ...

Virginia SCC Without Jurisdiction to Hear Prisoner Phone Rate Challenge

Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

, Jr., filed a complaint with the SCC alleging that M.C.I. Telecommunications Corporation (MCI) charged excessive rates for telephone service in the Commonwealth's prisons. The SCC entered a Final Order ...

California Class Action Lawsuit Targets Unauthorized Prison Phone Charges

Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004

Filed under: Class Certification, Telephones, Telephone Rates, Attorney Calls

California Class Action Lawsuit Targets Unauthorized Prison Phone Charges by A lawsuit currently pending in a California state court claims that certain providers of prison telephone ...

No Qualified Immunity in Civil Commitment Phone Monitoring

Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004

Filed under: Injunctions, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring, Qualified Immunity, Civil Commitment

' telephone calls, (2) from barring outgoing calls other than collect calls, and (3) to allow "prompt telephone access to residents in cases of family emergency." The SCC had repeated notice of what it must ...

Nebraska Prisoners Win Summary Judgment on Phone Access and Monitoring Issues

Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004

Filed under: Attorneys, Attorney Client, Telephone Access, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring, Access to Media

Nebraska Prisoners Win Summary Judgment on Phone Access and Monitoring Issues by Nebraska Prisoners Win Summary Judgment on Phone Access and Monitoring Issues by Matthew T. Clarke A Nebraska state district court granted Nebraska state prisoners' summary judgment on issues involving the monitoring and recording of phone calls to government …

Washington Failure to Disclose Prison-Phone-Rate Suit Dismissed, State Supreme Court Grants Review

Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

Washington Failure to Disclose Prison-Phone-Rate Suit Dismissed, State Supreme Court Grants Review by Sam Rutherford Division I of the Washington State Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court dismissal of an action challenging phone companies' failure to disclose the rates for collect calls made by Washington prisoners. Relief was …

Discipline Without Notice Violates Due Process; BOP Administrative Exhaustion May Be Excused

Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004

Filed under: Notice of Rules, Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's, Habeas Corpus, Telephones, Telephone Access

for violation of a rule he had no notice of violates due process. Scott Seehausen, a BOP prisoner confined at FCI-Sheridan telephoned David Reyes-Espinosa, a former member of his prison softball team. Reyes ...

NYPD Commissioner Charged With Stealing $112,733.98 from Jail Prisoner Fund

Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Jail Misconduct, Criminal Prosecution, Telephone Rates

NYPD Commissioner Charged With Stealing $112,733.98 from Jail Prisoner Fund by NYPD Commissioner Charged With Stealing $112,733.98 from Jail Prisoner Fund By Matthew T. Clarke On July 11, 2003, NYPD Deputy Po-lice Commissioner of Community Affairs Fredrick J. Patrick, 38, was arrested on federal charges that he looted close to …

Fighting for Fair Phone Rates

Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Telephone Rates

Fighting for Fair Phone Rates by Deborah M Golden Fighting For Fair Phone Rates by Deborah M. Golden In 2000, a group of prisoners, loved ones of prisoners, and attorneys filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the high cost of collect calls …

Disarray in Colorado: Prisoners Hurt by Host of Problems

Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004

Filed under: Prison Labor, Work Strikes, Crime/Demographics, Prison/Jail Murders, Statistics/Trends, Overcrowding, Staffing, Parole, Telephone Rates, State Legislation

done this to themselves," Gotsch says. Prisoner Phones Effective July 1, 2003, State Senate Bill 03-303 eliminated all Public Utility Commission (PUC) authority to "regulate telephone ...

CCA Closes Oklahoma Prison, Settles Tax Lawsuit Over Ohio Prison

Article • March 15, 2004 • from PLN March, 2004

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Financing, Prison Rebellion, Staffing, Money/Property, Tax Law, Telephone Rates

. According to Bill Clausius, spokesman for the Wisconsin DOC, state law caps prison telephone rates at $1.25 for the connection fee and 22 cents for each additional minute. Sayre is now stuck with the AT&T ...

Administrative Exhaustion Required in Pre-PLRA BOP Phone Suit

Article • January 15, 2004 • from PLN January, 2004

Filed under: Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Settlements, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

of Prisons (BOP), including telephone access and rates and billing of prisoners and their families. The consolidated cases, Washington v. Reno, US DC D KY, Civil Action Nos. 93-217 and 93-290, were settled ...

Scandal-Ridden, Bankrupt MCI WorldCom Wins No-Bid California Prisoner Phone Contract

Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Telephone Rates

by the California Department of General Services to MCI WorldCom, a telephone conglomerate whose recent bankruptcy exposed the largest accounting fraud in US business history - $11 billion. The non-competitive award ...

Nebraska Prisons Get Progressive Phone Contract

Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

digital telephone technology cost up to five international units a minute. The prisoner phone system has digital switching with sophisticated security features. All calls are digitally recorded ...

Secretly Recorded California Jail Phone Conversations May Be Used to Convict

Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003

Filed under: Criminal Prosecution, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring

of arson and two counts of first degree murder. Unbeknownst to her, while awaiting trial in county jail, her telephone conversations with non-attorney visitors were recorded - at the request of the district ...

New Mexico Supreme court Affirms Dismissal of Phone Rate Suit

Article • June 15, 2003 • from PLN June, 2003

Filed under: Mootness, Telephone Rates, Immunity/Liability, Sovereign Immunity, State Legislation

dismissal of an excessive phone rates case for failure to state a claim. Recipients of collect telephone calls from New Mexico jails and prisons brought suit for damages and injunctive relief against state ...

San Mateo County Sues California Jail Phone Service Providers

Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003

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

San Mateo County Sues California Jail Phone Service Providers by San Mateo County Sues California Jail Phone Service Providers On July 7, 2002, the county of San Mateo, California, brought suit against Pacific Bell and AT&T alleging they cheated the county out of millions of dollars earmarked for a fund …

Acrimonious Michigan Prisoners' Rights Suit Settled After 15 Years

Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004

Filed under: Clothing, Judiciary, Prisoner Legal Assistance, Law Library Access/Adequacy, Writing Implements, Photocopies, Administrative Exhaustion, Prisoner Property, Telephones, Telephone Access, Attorney Calls, Legal Mail, Attorney Visits

Acrimonious Michigan Prisoners' Rights Suit Settled After 15 Years by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A class-action lawsuit launched by Michigan state prisoners in 1988 which ultimately cost taxpayers $7.5 million in litigation costs was settled on November 4, 2003, resulting in prisoners gaining appropriate classification and psychiatric …

New Mexico Lawyers Entitled to Jail Visiting, Phone and Records Access

Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004

Filed under: Attorney Client, Settlements, Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's, Discovery, Attorney Calls, Mental Health, Attorney Visits

prohibiting class counsel from having access to the jail, its prisoners and staff, its records, and from imposing time limits on telephone calls to lawyers by prisoners. This is a class action suit ...